Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee385a4b618abaa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-08 18:31:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bdad4f43a91e9b6293f141b33879bb33 SHA-1: 17ba6affc5da5f7c3ce2c3ffb635bf50fa888462 SHA-256: ee385a4b618abaa9b4226de0d8a1e7d56feaf4fee5389b6fb32bf392580cbbde
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to a link farm hosted on Shopify, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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=alcoholismo+oms+definicion+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.janelleadsit.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775135/bc5c2c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.royalrampsandrails.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776142/tijexelunusulu_gonibubeguwot_gofivaneluta_vidazeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mexicoluminaria.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740285/f130c64.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.harrisburghigh.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379371/d7ff44.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/1549/9939/files/attestation_de_salaire_dclar_cnss_tunisie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8531/5737/files/21314957221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2326/9014/files/48259449373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4447/0945/files/selal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7361/0663/files/sigebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8828/1761/files/arabiyyah_bayna_yadayk_teacher_s_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0885/2117/files/93195411050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1165/3282/files/71765234027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1729/0406/files/vivepazovagiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7336/2325/files/davetopujusefikor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2802/files/15122890306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/8884/3686/files/how_to_install_resource_packs_in_minecraft.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/2075/0745/files/honeywell_chronotherm_iv_plus_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5405/6092/files/chauffeur_license_practice_test.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006119.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6119 4784 bytes
SHA-256: 36dd914395da168474326a9025df78a903a304f41ba6dc7332eb564177ee6380
font_01_sfnt_off00007123.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7123 9868 bytes
SHA-256: 95a34b0c4483a65669ed6d567f57277b4a01d92ab0506e444e7595104ced5d01
font_02_sfnt_off000092f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92F0 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3