Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e022ce15a4efe8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.1 KB Created: 2020-08-15 06:14:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 97ba0028593f8be217a4f68e57defd6c SHA-1: 8d2010189b972fc71cf8023bca99cd1239f22c42 SHA-256: 0e022ce15a4efe8cadb12316c1c870438168ead75ba80b4b525b3fc334e63937
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, identified as a link farm and redirector, pointing to malicious infrastructure. The primary lure appears to be a "Stripe checkout form wordpress" which redirects to a malicious URL. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests it's designed to distribute further payloads via these links.

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=stripe+checkout+form+wordpress In PDF document text
    • http://files.fizzbathco.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682806/nuluvomudeguda_disinasosunepu_debelafi_saratijopawadir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.caliraeshautespot.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741029/lademonodubu_wabuniparinebex_genofepuj.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/1/0428/4514/3207/files/31786235390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2849/6036/files/11522822299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4858/2820/files/nozonakogewaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9303/3111/files/east_west_college.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1468/3815/files/jawinuwogenat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/laxigitifudavizemitipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7031/4903/files/cisco_catalyst_3850_datasheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8462/7616/files/42662201202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0204/3288/files/wrong_turn_movie_in_tamil_isaimini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/22584543347.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off0000a179.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xA179 18512 bytes
SHA-256: aaf77fbcd5d8bde8e415ed0d7ea5635602ad5eae16f0b231ad425aa5d51097f7
font_00_sfnt_off00006acb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ACB 5412 bytes
SHA-256: 9eac29e63e461e09f74829d6b4b4946630fd6d3b87b39c82c2e951e57afe5895
font_01_sfnt_off00007d22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D22 10592 bytes
SHA-256: d93fa869b833a4f787cf8bb7f7ff93acf82503468bf42694d17ccf4983f1f429