Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 000c93e28732ed29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.9 KB Created: 2020-08-29 13:41:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8e8f3eabda45892015100eb2d7bff77a SHA-1: 93ea8c94afbcbaf94f8765d1059cabf98cc2e66a SHA-256: 000c93e28732ed298db3f1feb254435a855251ce6fc3a77a04aa8e80dce986ba
274 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to a redirector infrastructure associated with malicious activity. The document body is heavily stuffed with keywords and phone numbers, indicative of a callback phishing or scam lure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.
  • Travel-support phone-number stuffing scam critical SE_TRAVEL_SUPPORT_PHONE_SCAM
    Document repeats phone numbers in airline/travel/refund/support language, often across multiple regional phrasings. This matches SEO/support-scam PDFs that impersonate airlines or travel brands and route users to attacker-controlled call centers rather than a normal travel document.
  • 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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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.ru/wix?keyword=kenwood+kdc+252u+wiring+diagram In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In extracted file (font_01_sfnt_off00009abe.bin)
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn extracted file (font_01_sfnt_off00009abe.bin)
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2134/3647/files/english_words_meaning_in_malayalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4395/3563/files/52874649484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8377/5643/files/30100560542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7240/6179/files/hambriento_nach.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5976/3617/files/mac_resert_trial_photoshop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/9508/4456/files/68280016440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6209/8085/files/athar_aamir_khan_upsc_marksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6196/8025/files/william_finbar_kennedy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9340/2534/files/wemoxemedawipirepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2994/3704/files/zeburadoroxaduboru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0311/5682/files/latest_consumer_reports_tv_ratings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_56a2082fa5534f109682c165d8792389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_da4d4ae52d7941bdb4a5f76737f27e19.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bd8519c171fa453ab5508dc59ce0c169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_19bf628f17bd479e96ab3a433509fdc4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fded61b4a0f74705b95d29c1c5064f73.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4703/3752/files/nilijadedozufizemuwabapot.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 extracted file (font_01_sfnt_off00009abe.bin)
🗂 Part of campaign: johannaparkhurst.com 5 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008ff4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FF4 3036 bytes
SHA-256: e7c06a0dc481494621a4847731f779ae7df0c404639b109f48eaaf73bcaa6cee
font_01_sfnt_off00009abe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9ABE 5432 bytes
SHA-256: a93aa8c38b838162c947df9b4dcd1e23edb7fb50ff5857565a448c4577a501a1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ad39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD39 14328 bytes
SHA-256: 5ef4c06e00011d830494e1f887c186631b22e66e337d4d789427f974d3c53e9c