Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ccc16419a24e9b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-15 01:19:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9bebb3610e45c341fad3f2f8cc5294bd SHA-1: 725f3fdf4da20fc056ad69e41d7bf3c0547b0ce1 SHA-256: 0ccc16419a24e9b5840a41ba9acebb1222a69329767400ef4b6e8b5f4006753b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, with a primary URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the primary malicious URL. This suggests the PDF is designed to lead users to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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/wb?keyword=bespoke%20software%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gebitaxa.germanscalzo.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857247/3096143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ldbellsoccer.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636689/dcc49486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bopowinin.fincascoffee.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775934/d921178c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibew23.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775952/491866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/0161/5260/files/fusionner_2_avec_adobe_reader_xi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9165/6855/files/ak_47_gungeon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3603/2680/files/61158537071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8950/2110/files/97076488022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8266/9475/files/basic_electronics_mcqs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7298/8071/files/wedafaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6993/9612/files/ziboni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5286/7494/files/99646542283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9726/0192/files/factorio_train_blueprint_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6355/8815/files/saramozimewozibev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3240/4380/files/bunomorefebavasizuv.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005d16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D16 4844 bytes
SHA-256: a1c639218cc7200582430aea3ba14d6bd5849f58bab41fae5308c3360c84c7d9
font_01_sfnt_off00006daf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DAF 9996 bytes
SHA-256: f80c004027ae37e855458203b2c4bf593b981bd857a48162fd5c5ef13a0bea6c
font_02_sfnt_off00008fca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FCA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ad623bc7c681097dfa1224999cf6cc6072d3ca9a137655dc1129b0261f0b357c