Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4daf10829acd3b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-19 07:29:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 56c4bce716550742c3d45ca97fc64ff3 SHA-1: 7b8b7023190bdce4287f18af9e48daf4db37d856 SHA-256: f4daf10829acd3b5c3e033f96750aa36353ab81e371e78d89cbc5d57caa7bba8
222 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 Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'Bernina bernette 715 manual' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or scam site. The presence of urgency and callback lures further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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/pify?keyword=bernina+bernette+715+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.spsplusarchitects.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454523/fasulexawab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gepirakus.tottieaarvold.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683014/sopetasajoxa-seladanoge-pitekiloneda-lorudenar.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/1/0431/2514/5760/files/91126567197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0632/8995/files/lebimuxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9414/6200/files/93935713031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/4656/2966/files/tesis_sobre_alimentos_transgenicos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3595/9191/files/96241006414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4560/0931/files/46253559258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4264/3868/files/65993303606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1775/5034/files/bitcoin_que_es.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5252/9829/files/sapemibakodekitopom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1352/0029/files/xekemorurevirulivevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1497/8718/files/sadaxinexalekikowiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9387/7145/files/something_anything_nothing_exercises.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_off0000609d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x609D 5100 bytes
SHA-256: 9708fcaefa3ac73ceb3496be75c1089dd43a7dbbd38374eb038a0952ee568d66
font_01_sfnt_off000071ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71ED 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 7ebff8f0b8c44733287228a10285a47216ef926447a0666828754b591f081c29