Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8b37f8c904ee850…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-08-12 16:42:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 574812fa965a1c6fed98f5d6a41ba84a SHA-1: 187a723a34744155d2d32dd6f17bd79c4a8628b9 SHA-256: e8b37f8c904ee85009df4e3d52c3b0ece2c18bea7753a430d9e717fd32b87d95
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggered the critical heuristic. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=alzheimer+precoz+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.dukeladyblue.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164236/8c98cd931d5a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vie-delequipmentsales.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681062/9721829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jupafel.bechtandson.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163667/naregamut-zesurivizixi-ninoto-vefiletidijede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavokew.indiapropertyinsurance.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775795/sasalugopok.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/1/0428/1283/3959/files/xitujunenidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pelezegagujagemubejapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8802/7543/files/7547996224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2015/5042/files/adjective_and_adverb_phrases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6881/5528/files/value_guide_conveyor_components.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6737/5770/files/alexa_mohl_aprendiz_de_brujo_pdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8458/2813/files/javascript_close_window.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8325/9285/files/15361353035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/29878061118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1100/4821/files/kemibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0536/9758/files/pokilexoxojikuzine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4695/2351/files/fofojokabaxidasitika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1338/1028/files/5326249468.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000079e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79E6 5044 bytes
SHA-256: 3068044d3f9f908c11ea227a4aef4b344eda3ba44cb97d34157ac36b5cdb6e89
font_01_sfnt_off00008ae9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AE9 10396 bytes
SHA-256: f724ef1f9623a7bdc5bb822da007a2173d63d5eb6c6f9db06b3edf75d89c9909

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