Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06cfe717bc019f7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-02 12:12:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f25144b834aebfb59f501f8efe71774f SHA-1: 883bc16d9b65caad1da184ecf4b461c9d2ef6472 SHA-256: 06cfe717bc019f7f8925862bdab44cf29f057e230b8324b83c29395a69a12229
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector URL known for malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the primary redirector URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.ru/pify?keyword=manual+tire+changing+machine In PDF document text
    • http://files.tranquilpalmsmaui.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437984/tuvazeri_zesugux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gcontrols.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871721/2495933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gbbcnc.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438509/3186150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.leapsandboundspt.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606758/sokebenaf.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/1/0434/1497/8718/files/87224958483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3423/8362/files/82934576607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0344/3361/files/zixevegimobimuxixuxujuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8205/4813/files/54094651903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2805/4169/files/wevafuvegedexivabopovoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3486/1987/files/fokijajafikobawufubisif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3197/8403/files/9634784958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9861/0589/files/72046068022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1016/8744/files/89369648166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5737/3589/files/rubenigaxevinexefop.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_off000072c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72C4 5040 bytes
SHA-256: 0a7288b8f748afa8bdd56caea77b29ce2e47d1ea85ac3aa323f26ce47f6ed534
font_01_sfnt_off000083ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83CA 10036 bytes
SHA-256: 61289f6bcf9047077150dba477777a10d1eca3dc5a46ff6e537f8b36376b2694