Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05fccec8239fb5be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-17 09:38:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 16e4a800e51b712702c2e48a82595d0f SHA-1: ff09aa6d722959fa2fc845fc186765bad38fceca SHA-256: 05fccec8239fb5be87d47d04d4e5659fb20fda96eaedeae63412826b35f8b545
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a redirector URL, which is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though obfuscated, contains text related to software updates, reinforcing the lure. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

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=aggiornare+huawei+p8+lite+android+7 In PDF document text
    • http://files.kelseysq.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776599/pawuj-vigisanugeguwe-zigosogome-bunusujav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revaga.theoaksmith.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070722/wapozow_pudawibatafof_wikusajemeli_ziruxakututax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.luluanthistle.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071209/lunarusodunow-wavepikiw.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/1/0432/7846/7222/files/22122515418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2430/9659/files/discourse_analysis_of_newspaper_articles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4151/3894/files/bail_application_procedure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0805/6740/files/13378946016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sesolofulazige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1088/2727/files/xekujabetewufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9571/0113/files/64368015909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8166/2628/files/tokajenebinogafezudesepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2175/3758/files/lofabojejusavagalamuwup.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_off000062ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62AB 5400 bytes
SHA-256: ccaaecd1dc64e94e454cebd4ba5220abd6d5a990d823f5a861f5b18ece354f46
font_01_sfnt_off00007514.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7514 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 7ce6c29f94d8f6d9cb36dce5475649c06cad22ee0ce4d211efbb974846f160a1

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