Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eaa6c8de549b9ae5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-09 20:15:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bb7081a8a863de5988891142444e8747 SHA-1: 630833659222d63078042611590a0e49d811f934 SHA-256: eaa6c8de549b9ae5bccf35f0cc776f1d3943abd1a34b5c0d0d34fbe0cdaf44dd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Bota tarot pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a potentially malicious site. The presence of numerous external links and a malicious redirector indicates a likely attempt to lead the user to a compromised resource or phishing page.

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=bota+tarot+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://toputu.imagefilmandphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070420/4026383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.offthebeamwoodworking.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741241/3258039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.orangevalleycreations.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383510/bujofaketuwomidabej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.data.dbbcso.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874012/6ad389f2b0b.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/1/0431/0908/9447/files/70497911582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4138/2812/files/febukabefitisesofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7284/0090/files/how_to_search_a_scanned_document.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1674/1286/files/libro_de_cantos_para_difuntos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7902/5318/files/5th_grade_math_mixed_word_problems_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4513/5260/files/alphabet_francais_majuscule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2439/2087/files/78676119198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6372/1637/files/puxesudejibovosigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6230/5702/files/38090644296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2449/9367/files/namoger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9252/4700/files/gedajupazezofepigoraguwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1243/1770/files/tezanozotetuxugidi.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_off000064d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64D2 4872 bytes
SHA-256: e02334fe72295698830467d5f66d6b93c934b871e3860ac9c78ff61ea681dd9b
font_01_sfnt_off00007577.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7577 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 578b57f03d557cdebb1548ffd2b2fe2974462e0529a6b2674880650d29f476fe