Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee9f04b5ff6f1caa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-07-30 09:55:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b84a37f258377ce2f16f468ae15b8287 SHA-1: d7307b117c41915cd82f6f28a0f2ece1c42c3f2e SHA-256: ee9f04b5ff6f1caaf1dd78c47d4a2f2f7f4c36a76d1e6b86a8af6ef608aa1715
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to cloud storage, and the presence of multiple embedded links indicates a link farm or redirection strategy. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=ventajas+y+desventajas+del+almacenamiento+en+la+nube+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.southdakotaagriculturallaboratories.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710783/42c42ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.yourstoryunfolded.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681634/vavowuzexiler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.donnadeforbescreates.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070165/1842442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.onsiteexpeditions.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814680/966d53361.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/1/0432/6300/0734/files/vovetobuligiluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/67768868558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7338/8190/files/38682386873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4420/8797/files/xegofuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6827/6384/files/68992813704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2746/3324/files/91535267814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7139/6257/files/89354810649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9162/3074/files/75411483881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1237/5207/files/kuwosobuxovafifudokok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2135/3639/files/75353538159.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_off00006dd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DD0 5428 bytes
SHA-256: cb0d2028d5a816b15d61183e3254615e0559dd8ac8494494f02ce7714383feb7
font_01_sfnt_off0000803c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x803C 1800 bytes
SHA-256: 51ebeec29509b87aa858d500e37ac8853184703d07d1f913ce36d8e1dc7764c0
font_02_sfnt_off000088ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88CA 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 81f75ed57ea05cd56f37008d48d87cc3aa4f2123a4a363818a653ad76a1b2e49