Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bc13e0bf7ab7ce1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2020-08-08 10:25:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e65f305ccdc3d9891f6b4a12ee2981cb SHA-1: 37d6a66458babbda7e581da05a94af9705e0784c SHA-256: 5bc13e0bf7ab7ce1811d54ac9fb8e8ec9a917e686fe506654b0102ef9f4823b0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically a URL designed for SEO-based phishing. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be part of this lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links further suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results for malicious purposes.

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=atlas+copco+air+compressor+maintenance+manual+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.drjaygrossman.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453588/marivawilerumo_radiletifef_sofukat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://junalidog.bakersfieldcustomsigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637136/94b1d1dbc83.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.karenhalpern.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407406/5973e0db8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogatok.eimanelgibreen.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380485/xulatono_vupaf_zubim_valufubavogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hanna-jang.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738918/222be96f1f3.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/1/0430/5358/0441/files/19649573742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1374/1471/files/43479755367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7399/3890/files/64143080377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5530/0249/files/ielts_academic_task_2_vocabulary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pexigubozorabavajodumixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8945/3473/files/89531547141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1617/4243/files/sovizafaxoloxilajode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3486/9921/files/tapoxorimarasabopod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8859/3567/files/65323627547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8085/2383/files/4663703139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8280/0542/files/gapipadufesonapifibej.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c370.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC370 2828 bytes
SHA-256: a17885b4fd577e0298a64705d5055d2ac7c2363fd7008e9cf236b3df412a17d8
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD6A 5172 bytes
SHA-256: 767aadf159b4b8da4fff618a3dda51dc5fd67bc676f071e52ad5931856c420c3
font_02_sfnt_off0000ded9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDED9 9848 bytes
SHA-256: 9be6f5488dac8379fb2fd529eb53971d1a7a56dfa060bbce4826ca63a21a9abc
font_03_sfnt_off0001006a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1006A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361