Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13cd2258456597cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2020-07-25 08:17:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: eb8061c123340897ffe41209d70aa7e5 SHA-1: 8bb3a88274305d2fa1a7919363cb3c2881a85ac6 SHA-256: 13cd2258456597cd7c7974b2df394e0a7f0f93b40f3a3f27069fad9ff6deb71c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains embedded links that redirect to a known malicious URL, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to insurance claims, likely intended to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links points to a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic.

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/pify?keyword=bcbs+of+illinois+claims+review+form In PDF document text
    • http://files.prima-ef.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406269/8b648621025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.photosandfootnotes.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682204/1366480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cjaudiology.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164425/jamifimixuwix_zajoroko_lazufaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.barrybuilds.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813770/zavamomijased_puzore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tufproject.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380177/dovapefek-mamulizaxe-siziriv.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/1/0430/6888/3106/files/41369718939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8189/9944/files/kudoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3862/9270/files/63895612305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8789/6488/files/dagerovidusejira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7027/4201/files/pagegalipefudabelunikomim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9664/4511/files/sezeluzimuvunemerar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lapifobojupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9422/8630/files/sufuparoxexadumuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8862/5316/files/34869944210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5013/8784/files/kosez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3463/1579/files/8389090425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1020/3556/files/19520798276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tokavurovapipemekimisam.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_off0000c395.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC395 4596 bytes
SHA-256: 16ddf0d2b1ac4b4d2f46adc4539274eab9d17c1a8a00ef3c924f3fbb8ce7e7a9
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3B2 5076 bytes
SHA-256: d0d49a073226f48a60829c90c6f80e72916e471fedaaae3a9c45f9d53f5a22b3
font_02_sfnt_off0000e4d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4D3 14664 bytes
SHA-256: 8c088b71ebd3f26566436c8107c9f3728f155d59bec35d1b019d596ea497df50