Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c0e18b63fc9a748…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-08 23:34:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b09a307261a6b223ff17bab6ae398d5b SHA-1: 240c7c39357fb3f5830b656ee0756a242658d2b2 SHA-256: 5c0e18b63fc9a7488082c317c7ea8f824ab9af1084dc9e2f737b206da721434d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector infrastructure known for hosting malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are likely part of a link farm designed to attract users through search engines. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=sailing+to+byzantium+symbolism+pdf, which is flagged as a malicious redirector.

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=sailing+to+byzantium+symbolism+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.rachelannsaylor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482832/6782605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gufagu.heartsofhorsehaven.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407227/5739309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alycewolfe.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408056/7b3a3fca900cdfa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gracebibleministries.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398224/4933051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.reneeleaberger.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873943/5979147.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/1/0431/6259/9586/files/tekewuvixizobifazesimal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xomuburisuxenogiduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8252/1503/files/fobafinobagusoxovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4041/6678/files/jajalekunobogamudak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5276/0224/files/nunelosoxefevupokage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/27984898694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6990/5825/files/pumazivipegosikafogifepub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5171/2666/files/dopixulowuropimuwoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0168/3873/files/26803557300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1386/4604/files/72233031665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6009/9222/files/kubuwoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5874/8837/files/96993361067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5032/8486/files/boursorama_protection.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_off000067f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67F6 5424 bytes
SHA-256: e8e6a8c6d022c4db32af626ef7b436fdeb87840d42fdb75fe3efe5c3a20cb768
font_01_sfnt_off00007a49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A49 9676 bytes
SHA-256: b06d24aa7cb4aa9994b968a064e08f15174de407f65cd24fba1802526cc58a8a
font_02_sfnt_off00009b66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B66 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361