Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63a3bd7162e220ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.2 KB Created: 2020-08-11 07:10:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8bb8fd5373915b1a3dd96e86cfbf4906 SHA-1: 6103526ea733617eb8da0729d6c4c3180a18ff1c SHA-256: 63a3bd7162e220adc89c5c764a85087a98ac8afc2462f4ad4839c04fe76a9406
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known for malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that is also present in the heuristics, indicating a deliberate attempt to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed for phishing or malware distribution.

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=carol+of+the+bells+pdf+piano In PDF document text
    • http://files.sexualintegrity247.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164520/norupunenezejutifoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bornphilippines.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303229/furidevitebesime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://najelod.elitesandvolleyball.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382274/5254686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cdc-design.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739971/bisuxigubafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.radicoolair.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398334/zexovejow.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/1/0431/0145/4500/files/5701948375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2029/5064/files/rocking_horse_winner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8873/0525/files/peasant_s_quest_walkthrough.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9925/0072/files/mazus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8748/7395/files/29672768575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7102/7865/files/fatuzajizoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6194/4228/files/75594375748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9416/3109/files/jibaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9590/8761/files/24979613101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4829/6857/files/92293341777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1995/2550/files/28987547144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3260/8921/files/54289338038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2094/3523/files/30189418552.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn 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_off00004850.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4850 6588 bytes
SHA-256: c6acebe3750ab55c09714fa1b34f6c70ddae3ce202e1a088ffcbc34adab53285
font_01_sfnt_off000058ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58CA 5176 bytes
SHA-256: f39960897346de1400d01dc9ba9ea37b5e135e337973d6f93ed77c4058dd9874
font_02_sfnt_off00006a55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A55 9672 bytes
SHA-256: 10958b9ea71bc8094e1d68803547cd70a5ee80ca896494671b4983dc07babd93