Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13c503bf01e7c7e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-06 17:51:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1f30fab5bdb07630338e6a22594f1dbf SHA-1: a34e495043188fe0b14c457c3947c01b6b7a31bb SHA-256: 13c503bf01e7c7e93ca364180110dbe0e35ad9aee2711738596bcb7ad18508c4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known for distributing malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the redirector, suggesting an attempt to lure users to download further payloads. 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.cc/pify?keyword=acca+f9+revision+notes+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mattduffybaseball.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380786/2b6f90e42.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.veronicablight.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695755/kologanalovoxosiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lindawilliamsjewelry.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606094/fomoxe_gowazip_ribizur_fotudobugodiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.centerstudiovt.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437792/991047.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/1/0433/5425/9606/files/wotofuzurif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/99231100330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3320/6689/files/32507677390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7952/2714/files/systme_bielle_manivelle_exercice_corrig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8604/4572/files/rozekisatovegawux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9018/2297/files/zosizasuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7473/8586/files/15089928045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9717/0847/files/44384454557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7458/3702/files/67717158273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6332/9446/files/39520648978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3728/5797/files/alfred_marshall_biografia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9040/1687/files/rizufizileloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6926/7354/files/21076102464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3531/8689/files/kizovepebirelawerebas.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_off0000580d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x580D 5108 bytes
SHA-256: 6420cd06ccf592c87fb7af05945e3bc6c165055a967ff64f5e8cbb884acce492
font_01_sfnt_off0000697a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x697A 10064 bytes
SHA-256: 17de4d58764143da0c88afddd300977b6fb802152ce048f5c356a2615e04af1c
font_02_sfnt_off00008bd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BD9 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176