Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14bc27d40fc6b280…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 21:02:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fe8e780cc466f2150376880e2e72ed3a SHA-1: 7b77498440a5b028ef3c74197d302c41fddf3e29 SHA-256: 14bc27d40fc6b280d39b4a3c94a13a82de34b5983d8a2d64c9c896134cd12404
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links designed to appear as free downloads, but the primary link redirects to known malicious infrastructure. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt to redirect users to a malicious site. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure itself contains suspicious elements.

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.com/pify?keyword=secret+of+secrets+abdul+qadir+jilani+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.theseasonalapothecary.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483266/wefutitarabusudelum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.latinmasshv.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163957/d1bcab366e5c421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.batimap.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607544/sifugilok_kebuku_sumazotiruwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lincolncollegechapelchoir.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636947/wevox.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/1/0431/5247/4280/files/26179914993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4693/5445/files/wiwalejowuropexadilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7619/8305/files/fexoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6428/5592/files/44055406187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4578/1665/files/newedalumumozabavimozifot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8253/1481/files/23782406015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1664/0923/files/xigafenegutiwakos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1780/3675/files/26398541245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3507/4465/files/fogom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5650/4744/files/85982643478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5598/0439/files/gudimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6649/1031/files/47702542872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4016/2467/files/28046827229.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007098.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7098 5592 bytes
SHA-256: 1bdfc6783bbfb4ccd30acc9bb3389c2e4c8f1fee0180b8a5dd5cf4a62b8386f5
font_01_sfnt_off000083a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83A0 10316 bytes
SHA-256: bb0b80f4d16fd4c2ab5b88f40ccf565151a76c4d8b5f2bee9f1d89b7526a7638