Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e06717ca829ebaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 22:54:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ab9d23da267dd5c74cff3d7fd8eed0cc SHA-1: e8f32984eeb5fe080215d77bb0a9dfa19f9ad58a SHA-256: 0e06717ca829ebaf7f18f36f13a01c262ab7efa9ddf72262476b021a7c2af325
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 infrastructure, which in turn leads to a large number of SEO-optimized PDF files hosted on Shopify. This pattern is indicative of a link farm used to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=bhutan+tour+guide+marry+singaporean In PDF document text
    • http://modobel.tp4seniors.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738909/paxobiladaxuladimor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gonewiththewindgoats.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741397/pudenefexiga.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/1/0433/6146/8567/files/47893873329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xakikalimakimoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1394/7041/files/74831113118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2175/2726/files/polifef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0460/8155/files/59718179798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4509/3533/files/51546854943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4946/0636/files/spatial_databases_a_tour.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/2842/7431/files/vejeketakawawule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7877/9047/files/fixitiweluzijajosax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8602/0761/files/twin_size_extra_long_bed_sheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1530/6405/files/bamedetaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6043/6887/files/20556910993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1841/0394/files/byod_security.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2666/8952/files/21391040230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1359/4526/files/24486956662.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000068df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68DF 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 59f446d3c282f0b3e6d8270032a7df5341d86e0b4db950c47523477a0d5c3e60
font_01_sfnt_off00007b67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B67 10020 bytes
SHA-256: 50b0e0a36981b16b6aa7e62c0d99df2f04afed6110469564e1743400622002cc
font_02_sfnt_off00009dde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DDE 16036 bytes
SHA-256: 9559dd1bd908241551916101fda3d445a26f5c4b506a1423f23393456f9d5940