Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15d31c117339848f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.3 KB Created: 2020-08-04 20:52:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 33774fac0162a8f82861992f721ff953 SHA-1: f1e9d61d3be8a3b784a7056d6f5a8649ecacb56c SHA-256: 15d31c117339848fbaac30c8d1e716de54bb2da5cf2fdd32e70d8a0cd5f2e823
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The primary redirector URL is associated with malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text and URLs found in the heuristics, indicating an attempt to trick users into downloading further content.

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=antiepileptic+drugs+classification+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://purujo.gabcmemphis.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380126/e43784ab0b231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vegan-versions.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740362/3348172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.katiedunivan.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741241/xugilirujazu_fatuvebizonosi_rikekijivokibof_zavonemewuvugu.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/1/0431/0574/7108/files/54493674354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2560/3488/files/barber_adagio_for_strings_piano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4869/0076/files/3865792863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7370/7925/files/lovugunegibonuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0645/2131/files/xotenomil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1596/9688/files/57886454980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/78992801071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7005/3784/files/jawoviborukafiriva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7881/9735/files/13840264808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6470/4662/files/xijaxavuvojetewage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8359/4909/files/83806148864.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_off0000a309.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA309 5312 bytes
SHA-256: 75972cb81952f00eb0cfc82271275ecd7d008eb3c25e0207a31794ffcdc8601d
font_01_sfnt_off0000b52d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB52D 10292 bytes
SHA-256: faeb4890c24b8db0bd3cf2d560b2f8f8d6e5a3b390cdb4a54a0edb0f460cde5e

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