Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f136249c38d1f7b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-05 19:22:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4db068f42700c01255169df79aaec167 SHA-1: 00bedd6b6df3d28f2cb05d2d4a177590675242bf SHA-256: f136249c38d1f7b0cffb15465f8172e17251662d18e356a4d0e56118042cf65e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to converting XML to PDF and mentions the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates the presence of numerous external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, which are likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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.com/wb?keyword=como%20converter%20xml%20em%20pdf%20online In PDF document text
    • http://files.jameskallembach.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856331/409862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rebuildersspecialty.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776795/7ef163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.megtinsleymft.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775760/2156743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.teamantoinette.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815002/dakaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gabriellemoulding.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969761/pizumubuzefotusob.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/1/0432/9262/3001/files/safuwovirosabegofurufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7971/9317/files/80807243971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6053/5196/files/62919639943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4477/2759/files/66232272604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7909/6728/files/79743078945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3759/7591/files/737830470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9744/6818/files/givufilan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4228/3432/files/39330000312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2161/5775/files/34663281417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0637/7633/files/75797265460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8827/1767/files/o_reilly_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2905/4118/files/sesuxofatabeziripewel.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_off00004e6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E6E 4852 bytes
SHA-256: 6cc67eb3a412dfd7370014043eb331a23bfe4d7d6862e57c304f34a62034d092
font_01_sfnt_off00005edc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EDC 12392 bytes
SHA-256: 5a5089f6504eff0e7eed1e6a256b45764a86ab90a568940cff40aee7ad627eba
font_02_sfnt_off000084d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84D0 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71