Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59fb9c0f761afb53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.7 KB Created: 2020-08-14 09:38:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 43138dc1284c5734503a8de0a04d82c3 SHA-1: 3a0a92c0c9a4eed49c3e17d0fffd0ec7ef2dfb4f SHA-256: 59fb9c0f761afb53dbbc8491234e0f255e7ac9aaeb16cddcd361b1cf8f16af0a
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure related to 'Bitlife ribbons' and includes a link to a redirector service. This redirector is configured to lead users to potentially malicious content, as indicated by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or distribution, as flagged by 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM'. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=bitlife+ribbons+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.sergedesroches.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302810/vaxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hartfeltservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871729/nofupozisadazodadok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jitefir.acupunctureandnaturopathicclinic.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/fonufiwuwoluz_jezikefi_kobaxu_mavel.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/1/0433/5104/8357/files/65119548045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8148/9813/files/scissor_jack_design_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8221/9674/files/area_of_circles_and_sectors_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4760/0807/files/tipijopumimidalelutole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5239/9777/files/existentialisme_camus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8954/9726/files/92387838214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2515/4716/files/52623015005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5402/3327/files/xikadiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9850/5377/files/94380135300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3573/5717/files/tabela_aliquota_icms_interestadual_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3628/6877/files/68168872676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8615/1834/files/31815303953.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_off0000ac76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC76 5052 bytes
SHA-256: bc829602f73ddf028ee2004c2c7847ba640b174fee41a5f74aa24eba4b79cd54
font_01_sfnt_off0000bdb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDB3 10536 bytes
SHA-256: fb89462aa610724f4e0d81b9bfbbeb286f806f2864d208c24a24658eab631bc4

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