Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e820b8cce994b545…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2020-07-30 15:43:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6ef94e9500c28cb224e6e2e0a6b5fa5b SHA-1: c6d74076b34277428713cc41dda6ab4ad13af20b SHA-256: e820b8cce994b545282ac5de1bae66fc424e6617ea94a6983358ef70e4dcf3de
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates that one of the primary URLs leads to known malicious infrastructure. The 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic further suggests that the document is designed to host a large number of external links, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDFs from web content, further supporting the link-based attack vector.

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=introduction+to+seismic+interpretation+hart+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.halfmoonyogaandart.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695517/8318793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.paoniacherrydays.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438667/dcdaf9782a9a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.benstillsings.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303147/a2a5f3fc1.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/1/0431/7826/2692/files/39225339280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8393/2582/files/danuxudigedoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2304/6568/files/63200258225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3644/8667/files/lageviri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9403/2025/files/xuvenomikanijivaxijunofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7492/9319/files/39169314413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6245/1611/files/2997225295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1010/4228/files/bizasezifolisipafibosoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7086/5052/files/topegevinujegon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9493/2640/files/fujokivulitupuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8148/2919/files/kujumusufezukatiwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8691/3431/files/monazodugegiloruve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8289/9871/files/kejep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9634/9602/files/72949943315.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_off0000df51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF51 5184 bytes
SHA-256: 7ca4980251af0bdd62613550ec9d13418e15ece144a356e90a859ca99677fe68
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0BC 15792 bytes
SHA-256: f85105ccbbb58103c71f2c3b4f910067b93eef7c2b8886d846e9630d751af279
font_02_sfnt_off000121bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121BC 16116 bytes
SHA-256: ba04679cbc7368f9890885b57c2b0d1aeb6d4f863cf9ecec45405187c742a2cd