Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ebc8bc8707a11e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-08-02 11:23:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 695d21a1679bb5f618ebade9a897f263 SHA-1: 26fcb17cc5ad48c0e97e498513555635e5764ae9 SHA-256: 0ebc8bc8707a11e5091371293b6e78c87bb33d10c3a816581b1600df79049c55
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text fragments related to lyrics and the tool used to generate the PDF, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious links. The presence of numerous links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate malicious destination.

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=love+hurts+lyrics+incubus In PDF document text
    • http://files.hamptonalumniatl.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453645/6696568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pacehighchoir.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871891/2056809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.navajoareacoa.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398338/wutaraje.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/1/0430/5390/8117/files/68420946984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2629/0587/files/21050709346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8954/2809/files/63403106043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5293/3018/files/65754785313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0862/0701/files/zuzudepizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0673/0144/files/65496320443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8244/1113/files/91673821221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0862/1735/files/gavamof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8176/0935/files/zitudasafawapukozox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9150/0961/files/63962924503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8564/3420/files/63727853717.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_off00004efc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4EFC 4920 bytes
SHA-256: 52b4770e8b222de9c89668eac807aec4aa57f85ab3d2b06eb4ecc0eea8288b71
font_01_sfnt_off00005fc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FC9 10064 bytes
SHA-256: 3d7b36afd5324985a8495c52572e5b368fdfaa1815570f4eadc7dd7e1ec45617

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