Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e1c08f0a31ba5b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.6 KB Created: 2020-08-19 20:38:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ad5e40eb0d3cf0116d0e244025b8f578 SHA-1: 14cb60d5ecf42653232226faf33691b6677a072e SHA-256: 1e1c08f0a31ba5b931571533c9dac51e97023a147d8df96a294a1510025b65e5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with multiple links pointing to PDF files hosted on various domains, including a known malicious redirector at https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=antebellum+reformers+webquest. This suggests a social engineering tactic to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=antebellum+reformers+webquest In PDF document text
    • http://files.ccpspasadena.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969600/vavuwuzitakas_pizaxas_xiletikeruruti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kingvan.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380052/d9ba160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.studiosfinearts.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681204/zizaxovojenanamiliz.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/1/0435/0181/3915/files/24137100163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4414/1218/files/upsc_assistant_commandant_notification.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3287/1074/files/milan_classification_of_salivary_gland_tumors.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8363/5619/files/60801979009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2727/4645/files/rebitalafip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0790/0835/files/bituwuruliponugulojubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2436/7266/files/58209211587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6025/7177/files/lifupalot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3049/4878/files/jewikepakumufanuwamiduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/9390/5828/files/acute_myocardial_infarction_treatment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5115/5618/files/tebuwesikedesovibul.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_off0000493c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x493C 5052 bytes
SHA-256: 25870cbc1a6f55867fb0ecdbb805aa80b5cc68ae2a7ff3b3dd416656169a5c80
font_01_sfnt_off00005a66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A66 9852 bytes
SHA-256: f51a78ca60615d98bf595d6f687d173de4fffc7edb8c1923cbb16d0db257d502

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