Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59ceca80e2a58ecc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 20:58:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 70680f45551b93aacdde03f96b3ac9fd SHA-1: 66de9eb253748c9bbd56a8a6b2b79d6028203aa3 SHA-256: 59ceca80e2a58eccf9d7b4fa33952ad3a90025a310706f8e24bf3d9ac2bb1257
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a redirector URL that is flagged as malicious. The document body text is obfuscated but contains keywords related to Android debugging ('adb install apk error device not found') and the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure to a technical support scam or a malicious download. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking for specific keywords, further supporting the lure-based attack pattern.

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=adb+install+apk+error+device+not+found In PDF document text
    • http://vewivi.shelleygentry.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406717/rijutuvilojukotifide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.paddyharrop.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378993/8437027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ballroomdancebyangela.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775431/3767440.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/1/0435/1066/1279/files/kizusefokil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0198/4662/files/interlocking_accounting_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2514/5760/files/suwapewuzuxedomatevamom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7962/1026/files/12755790137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7708/4070/files/74009127792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9462/1862/files/add-_apt-_repository_command_not_found.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9083/6632/files/95226119183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3620/3415/files/credit_card_cibil_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9078/9020/files/sowedasofupotigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6092/7393/files/bdc_anatomy_handbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9767/6192/files/78293223587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6296/6937/files/zorejenixikexona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6381/2004/files/case_files_pediatrics_4th_edition_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4166/8770/files/8978532322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9557/3158/files/besofipig.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_off0000c94c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC94C 5400 bytes
SHA-256: 77b1b1ff218542f7c68acbc0ef0cc5e604a301baff25e1e23d14fbcc0817dc5a
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBB8 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 7650bf3ebc379e00b370f4e9792f755b67a663dce4f561495f9c37aa5f692131