Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5deaf61b5c96aa19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 16:50:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7bb1075c9236e078ed4881ea173804fa SHA-1: 05e74ce1e1e8212eec9f4889cad0cdd838348437 SHA-256: 5deaf61b5c96aa193f8a53463d1544c486edf093e4e85994eb8af591f7b68c5e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known to host malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain the same redirector URL and a list of benign-looking PDF files hosted on Shopify, likely to create a false sense of legitimacy. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a malicious redirector URL is a high-confidence indicator of a phishing or scam attempt.

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=ejercicios+de+altura+mediana+mediatriz+y+bisectriz+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.superiorwayoflife.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969179/lutawiluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.realmarketingclub.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856771/vaxekejeguzopeliki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.churchhillproductions.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775304/8429107.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/1/0433/9489/1943/files/tapujanabibowumuwuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4583/8248/files/zokidopufosadetita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7832/7203/files/ordinary_annuity_sample_problems.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0056/9766/files/maxukofefedefutekotakek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0182/1859/files/angustia_definicion_en_psicologia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5382/5694/files/21577220690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4991/8374/files/1200_bosquejos_biblicos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/niwaragevutaxesidep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xirapekewovefosisukepeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9812/9059/files/jitoladijizegup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7571/4715/files/oil_change_receipt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3876/8294/files/36166413478.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005159.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5159 5508 bytes
SHA-256: f1e135e2e177a2a0d71908a922f5f88e9d38db164501011c85a206c0e1985152
font_01_sfnt_off00006407.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6407 11576 bytes
SHA-256: 7688893ba8d29e2b6406c90e592112d6d00935cabb789266d44a31c57913263a
font_02_sfnt_off000089b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89B0 16068 bytes
SHA-256: 48f515d49a265d3cec15dbd2d5f47ba1c49b14e3908a9c859c3ba8f821ef457d
font_03_sfnt_off00009e50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E50 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333