Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e567dde777e0b4c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.2 KB Created: 2020-07-25 02:37:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3ea0b1caf0a053b263f1291f5d90c508 SHA-1: 580c5000b38532e459282c8814c2e45747f0153f SHA-256: e567dde777e0b4c4d8d4ea011431d35b1811537bc700f663c2b247df141520fc
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK confirms this, and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicates a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The document body, though heavily garbled, contains text related to the URL, indicating a lure. The primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure.

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.ru/pify?keyword=large+format+camera+lenses+ebay In PDF document text
    • http://files.temosart.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873869/vekixiwopilobog_xuzoxatotagu_tokedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.susanwenz.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776401/wadizonefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.moombaparkps.vic.edu.au/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738792/5c3d80c06ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.donkeytalkshop.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969690/lowipetidipinu.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/1/0429/5763/5735/files/xelobutotomelorokenuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2154/1271/files/98843255078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8036/5720/files/91284441588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5098/2821/files/45738631588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7202/8823/files/42865275471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7520/5288/files/jigakufuziwemuvukivonalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8359/4909/files/35415017578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2177/0656/files/sefomukup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7793/5004/files/25135433676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/65545430121.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000809f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x809F 5124 bytes
SHA-256: c92b8c1c5b0542a4196ac8da39fdc6aeb3eb8443a6aab644d6bc7598c34abbbb
font_01_sfnt_off000091fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x91FA 9892 bytes
SHA-256: 850ab5aa4bd4e9e4859014cb934e0768f2194b29b944208de91cadc97cfdeb42