Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ebcd160c5d082a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 09:31:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f0652d70cfc0ac1431211314c419aee6 SHA-1: 16cd55389852dbde930d14dacd7c9b1d1fa13d5d SHA-256: 1ebcd160c5d082a63546aa567b4687c980eae35861fd144ee10e7f8f5ddfe2e2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. It also contains a large number of external PDF links, characteristic of a link farm. The embedded URL points to a redirector service, likely intended to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body contains text related to 'mcelreath statistical rethinking pdf' and the wkhtmltopdf application, suggesting a lure to download a seemingly legitimate document.

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.ru/pify?keyword=mcelreath+statistical+rethinking+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.roberthsachs.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453665/fisozidewizetowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.teamgome.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815343/rilukasezig-wezafudosibumag-babuxi-nuniwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.txlpcsupervision.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382590/figojawaponuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiraw.letmeshop4you.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739564/mowatasulemebi.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/1/0431/4556/0226/files/giwoxekapajatizuxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3478/files/42696897997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5181/7883/files/aromanian_language.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7919/7081/files/94087249311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9938/1157/files/zezepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2890/6138/files/81890554859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8000/0423/files/56648957042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4823/8241/files/nozodojulafelitukiwejato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8338/0376/files/36674849353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5207/1074/files/adjective_preposition_combinations_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7548/4313/files/zojozukovopexalukow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8163/8812/files/oliver_tractor_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2480/0154/files/dajinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8101/3150/files/18482687813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6743/1329/files/kumaxubirurokulebamogerib.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_off00009175.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9175 5484 bytes
SHA-256: 9003ceedbaca3d7428eade390262cd39c4eed2c9a78fc276cb15d7cac95e9642
font_01_sfnt_off0000a414.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA414 14016 bytes
SHA-256: 2cfdb016d27bcc0d17ff30caa17bcd3a985c1b1d170458e64a8e3187ad313af6