Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5dec05157a014a3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-25 15:39:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 55f441eace2d3e1d816e2079cbe9fc71 SHA-1: d60d9242d760f70c866cd1b92c54d1f3ad86451d SHA-256: 5dec05157a014a3de0d6a8ccea82e906f15b9f987ebb9e38ac261d34ed4d342c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains multiple embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The primary lure appears to be a fake offer for Spotify Premium, likely a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body and heuristics indicate a link farm strategy, directing users to potentially malicious or unwanted content.

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=spotify+premium+free+apk+ios+2018 In PDF document text
    • http://files.writinglifebarbaraoneil.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164488/nenefubiwurabuwawo.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/1/0435/8556/8925/files/argosy_property_annual_report_2017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kuvesagapixunijibofalase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7266/8319/files/advanced_maths_book_for_ssc_cgl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51994241049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9496/6429/files/atrial_flutter_management.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3393/6547/files/wijedofikagufawut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/13879903487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3033/8966/files/nobewogevedonoxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9582/6336/files/designing_audio_power_amplifiers_bob_cordell.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1789/4050/files/46800839635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8030/9141/files/basketball_score_sheet_excel_fiba.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000067be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67BE 5804 bytes
SHA-256: 5e619069ce1d747fe2a3cb597292db0858ca8aa0df308e598379e9dd74ac3e1b
font_01_sfnt_off00007b73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B73 10268 bytes
SHA-256: 6fe8dee66ecda27b67a6a6862d0f9540c37a8c1c00119dac67e28e3e4465702d