Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4a9428df993244b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.4 KB Created: 2020-08-03 15:06:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c9d1be9b291c53cf2150267efd3edf7a SHA-1: 38a3776672db45b12ca6925d98bd2443ad18ee07 SHA-256: e4a9428df993244b1c261bb88eb234908b544a6e6b3c9899890c121e6b111be1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body text, though partially corrupted, mentions 'Photogrammetry pdf book', likely a lure to entice users to click the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=photogrammetry+pdf+book In PDF document text
    • http://files.coverbpodcast.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681495/bazewevowusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.allison-kiefnerburmeister.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740362/6661002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dancinggrains.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681885/17e03c24e14b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dhhdancecollaborative.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437291/b7b7a087f72d25.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.janhumphriesphoto.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069899/a63137bdec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5031/9517/files/kopinonorixage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1594/6911/files/wolebepasixekavakagumugij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2525/3023/files/98550996997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8024/4643/files/merge_mac_os_preview.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5173/6471/files/mabaponobiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0515/5240/files/zezagojokumad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4277/4938/files/76240410709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3621/1357/files/24348987248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3755/6889/files/no_man_s_sky_graphics_settings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5743/9129/files/17124698344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1087/4777/files/57557305956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000993d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x993D 5552 bytes
SHA-256: b69b6e1e05a602e0f63243c2080ef9aebfe55227ec553405646b9420fb551f83
font_01_sfnt_off0000abf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xABF9 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 0bc2d4a1f5327ec97afdf5e8fbe49fc63afff3254eb8c384a1a9bbe9950eec4e
font_02_sfnt_off0000cf67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF67 16148 bytes
SHA-256: ebaa9d42c58e3fd25c8264bcf4ef2319fee467c92cf53dcc1f377a20fc8d39b0