Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b50cccc8bf63994…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-02 11:48:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0481b78c22af137196907e9871fe3cbe SHA-1: 5c7fce3d2be04100bcef754ca6adeb16455afeee SHA-256: 2b50cccc8bf63994b38cd5346572acc017dac39a8f301ac8a53035e32610859f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many of which are hosted on Shopify, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain. The document body and embedded links suggest a lure for a 'Pathfinder player guide pdf', which is likely a pretext to drive users to the malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=pathfinder+player+guide+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.flyfishinginstructors.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696465/6193947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.braverthanthewaves.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453807/5359755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.redatnightstudios.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636987/givomab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rsdpestcontrol.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398401/4aff08.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vebamuwonodivori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5438/3782/files/tobulexix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4765/6351/files/zegamumefirinagajilup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8102/3140/files/49680449454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5612/8412/files/94535591469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2995/4721/files/11531132854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kemisavixazesunomezixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9450/6661/files/dujowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7578/8184/files/lawusuzadodusilelorirediz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/81236671698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6033/9623/files/bejikadogot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6655/5557/files/daturatokigemijefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0550/1852/files/4022683165.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005549.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5549 5000 bytes
SHA-256: e296d185707247ad0f834e0bd50842ac51d332b0ae2952113d1852106d2dc5e7
font_01_sfnt_off00006639.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6639 10168 bytes
SHA-256: 77250a5cba9c1c9b453768658faf32291ff4e996152b17867717121f2fe8977e
font_02_sfnt_off00008920.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8920 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361