Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3c8947e3701b4a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-06 08:49:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 56bb5cc43a22574cf289ab104848b711 SHA-1: 142a59bf6d93c4c1f74b0d8aca72bc0e61a5d480 SHA-256: f3c8947e3701b4a8048d8294463079d4da1243cdc72a55f57bda2c20e376819b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. This redirector is designed to obscure the final destination, likely a phishing or malware distribution site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that mirrors the malicious redirector's target. The presence of numerous Shopify links suggests an attempt to blend malicious content with seemingly legitimate resources.

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=difference+between+circuit+switching+and+packet+switching+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://setaze.growinggreenolc.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070722/d999993ae4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.foldedcraneyoga.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683357/wenuwefulivinebezito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.egtny.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131405977/8fee5.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/1/0432/6958/7104/files/big_ideas_simply_explained_the_art_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2299/1007/files/ruwajabufudaxonel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6741/6488/files/82408100844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/9142282406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0404/6997/files/water_pollution_seminar_in_marathi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8451/3429/files/zonoxibosuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9311/5548/files/va_form_21-_0779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5557/0341/files/mofikarategopara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2860/3295/files/49446633454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2784/0675/files/78430397115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5048/4390/files/conducting_polymers_polyacetylene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8276/6750/files/anaesthesia_drugs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7030/0065/files/16722788981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3713/0914/files/4929855510.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_off000066ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66EE 5680 bytes
SHA-256: 369ebe23c8f7cd4fb2b6a4ad4b7569acdf3088499245b1019ce7ab3624a36577
font_01_sfnt_off00007a57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A57 10052 bytes
SHA-256: 82d2ab0f4db226fe8d50221e17ad9511417034a79fe5e42b3e70934740d6922c

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