Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6543edecdbf6ab5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.4 KB Created: 2020-08-23 17:18:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ac0bb317847b459250e73a0005a995e9 SHA-1: 16494063a434e40e8a8da2e60d00417c7afecffa SHA-256: 6543edecdbf6ab5ef1171de82e53dd665cfbc2559fcd0b43f2cc11c367dd18f1
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be part of a lure for a game download. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=alan+wake+dlc+xbox+360 In PDF document text
    • http://files.accentuatescottsdale.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970023/6339818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fund-intent.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682565/kujobixevagozitej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sf-inked.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776046/pejezavo.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/1/0434/0727/8238/files/mulching_sheet_30_micron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6657/2441/files/11887921186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4874/6651/files/kewodebelonesaleruxolak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9502/4033/files/emails_that_start_with_m.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/2075/0745/files/cartello_vietato_fumare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/45397061855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4795/0248/files/bizhub_c558_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4433/8838/files/nazujibizotepefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8725/0087/files/lilakom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6028/0982/files/room_rate_discount_authorization_form_marriott.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6227/8809/files/buzuxutora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0778/6654/files/acceptance_and_commitment_therapy_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3863/8241/files/pokikuranudujuritit.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
🗂 Part of campaign: chloe-bee.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00014c0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C0B 5472 bytes
SHA-256: 2d3eb607cf53fbfa6fd582afe4bf6cd0ea2adbf49de509baaf4dce24181dc739
font_01_sfnt_off00015ecb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15ECB 11376 bytes
SHA-256: 37867fd5d9ab291046466b5116cb749af9fc5a921aaadcba30515bead133516e