Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15ec1986d4b68cfb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.3 KB Created: 2020-08-23 01:46:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 386b36025514f0d91a3b2fd950cc993c SHA-1: f117ec1c864af9cb64004a924c29abef2298d307 SHA-256: 15ec1986d4b68cfb9ebe501d5e0a41e6aa28750afbb21abb6fdd97a25923a7b3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristics. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text suggesting a lure related to a 'Hollywood reporter howard stern cover photo' which, when clicked, leads to the redirector URL. This pattern is consistent with phishing or scam attempts designed to lead users to malicious sites.

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=hollywood+reporter+howard+stern+cover+photo In PDF document text
    • http://keloni.thecareconnector.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858540/negadopin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thaioneonrestaurant.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738620/1918931.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/1/0434/7245/3797/files/45627655382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3942/4663/files/chyna_is_queen_of_the_ring.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7362/5500/files/sowomuxisunegepakubib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1925/5454/files/lewiberux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5974/7745/files/gobifeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6807/0815/files/democratic_autocratic_and_laissez_faire_leadership.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1637/2892/files/wegede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7594/5113/files/94199491043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0697/5382/files/49337503451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9802/9733/files/vendor_statement_reconciliation_template.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_off0000b609.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB609 5376 bytes
SHA-256: 40f3ad27b657fe1ca55d386bfbb159c5c32620a69f80f07be61b0633aa4ccc8e
font_01_sfnt_off0000c860.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC860 10460 bytes
SHA-256: cdf7a0717c79f605a04a1955917ca3c7541ac15d9a2e1e3b610edc7c46064c79

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