Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00569b6c2ab58c11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-09 08:24:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8df1a3526fba4ced241f98318f6d468e SHA-1: 9a86b0bc3c6c8aca01f880c6e925f1f8f918218d SHA-256: 00569b6c2ab58c11bf4276c65adc99086885992948db0464230e4824647d7d6f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, and at least one link to a known malicious redirector. This suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The presence of a malicious redirector URL indicates an attempt to lead users to potentially harmful content, possibly for phishing or malware distribution.

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=business+writing+definition+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.yardieting.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682303/guxeretukewegun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xawewinu.leatherneckclassic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775320/kedisuvatotujivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.christineblanchet.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739214/sixolajiror_nebelumagepa_famoxilevolaso.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/1/0430/3477/1610/files/paypal_classic_desktop_site.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/28821374719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/62114329075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7301/0850/files/embroidery_designs_books_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5499/6383/files/bob_marley_biography_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6662/2101/files/31511726069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2873/2314/files/kobepozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0519/3885/files/boy_baby_names_hindu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9731/7785/files/pokemon_red_gameboy_advance.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0115/9575/files/probability_density_function_exponential.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_off00006137.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6137 5108 bytes
SHA-256: 011561ddacc3aeee568619e3c2310d3c401ecb62ae9794f6d98355e00ebc2ef5
font_01_sfnt_off000072c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72C5 10180 bytes
SHA-256: 1e4a21f14079f4f79adcea7754fa0d2434d8767ee0f9b8ed2f2c775e92cff8dd

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