Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d94564f32549e34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-07-31 15:25:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 430b6f6a3bcd93eeb2b7d70bf3d59eeb SHA-1: 150841adbeead02b6c29b9836c466e7ae028c7cf SHA-256: 1d94564f32549e3433f40225d83a6dc3cb8933bea2f2e3086e647f6d2a0e5d9b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to Shopify domains, but one critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of 'Comcast lansing mi' suggests a potential lure for phishing or credential harvesting. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to malicious infrastructure via a link farm.

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=comcast+lansing+mi In PDF document text
    • http://files.enlightenedcatering.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775462/5afa6d84e4d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thehousefixers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437848/987e2d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lugs-4u.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814050/e9e403683cd63.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shopcuriosities.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740329/jedetunefumujexonos.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/1/0434/5892/0605/files/43594213308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6550/0060/files/8182325128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1430/5430/files/81578758329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5115/5618/files/pejakomotibulodosuredixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2887/2359/files/redetoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4173/4311/files/29299952218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8671/5805/files/selebujunakokikegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7278/2489/files/39342415184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0028/2783/files/56010036644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0058/6649/files/65289655436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vawis.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_off0000655f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x655F 4716 bytes
SHA-256: 6bc18cb1025e35c814b968d5651f416f5baf28c62ee6a8e5fe2de7d5d30e12ce
font_01_sfnt_off00007540.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7540 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 2ab825be7d76f0e355ab9c38f0b395f401d6e92165e46b54f3bf9c707acf098a