Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cc0967167b6a0e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-01 00:20:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0f4b3e6ea2f581eb6cd6782165689f0a SHA-1: 8a3291973707d76def2a711b8e7a638e91e8759d SHA-256: 5cc0967167b6a0e995e65109d26be552becc14bd8edc7c5d55aaba7bb812a9ec
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector known for malicious activity. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to distribute malware or phish for credentials. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

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=gravely+ztx+42 In PDF document text
    • http://files.themerlinplayers.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607237/vodabeduwetivop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.themixedupfiles.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438423/ccc15df3a08d89a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ptti.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969904/4cabef1d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.afulmer.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681993/sadafakijilizi_tamenuvi_wojam_xidodup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.visionquilt.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482819/7dca44f6f.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/1/0431/6479/5044/files/acs_organic_chemistry_study_guide_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8705/3471/files/goverabidejobod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/redukenedobitaguwowok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8164/6758/files/ansi_c84_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1729/8329/files/sebudalosawarade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/ligumugazawebamupewav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3573/7764/files/59763596338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0350/1989/files/20416756078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9113/1557/files/70551446591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5987/9834/files/3009711438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0878/5562/files/88890662392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0459/0242/files/jigifotebilijuxavuruzedat.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_off00005d46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D46 5032 bytes
SHA-256: 42d9bd04ad437401987264939ed78b6b998dc77035af61ebfc20976dffdc22e7
font_01_sfnt_off00006e93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E93 11076 bytes
SHA-256: 19b3dc6b1a77759499f8d61233deda4cc652fb9293a7ea8a04f20be6db620f85

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