Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65675a0f36e48ea0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-04 01:26:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 021cb3d90accdb80d20ea2ccfa6b05d6 SHA-1: a6b7ef4439f4889a6c1d9cc773dc9cdb1ce5ae41 SHA-256: 65675a0f36e48ea0698cbde53116a3b93da64b04f32661b38ed76a91b667ce83
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a redirector link to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=newspaper+article+structure+pdf'. This suggests the document is designed to lead users to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or to download further malware. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=newspaper+article+structure+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.glba-urban.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607407/lififixezovepid-wusuxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aeneidusc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453394/kegajorojegidogum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.beepbeepeurope.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483445/sosezatibuzexi_levepimububu_leruzadometeg.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/1/0430/6488/5402/files/wemitagoliduzijorivipumat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2312/3100/files/fabedozutaxokenalatekadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1448/7190/files/mixomozogowiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fixasitisajixumazurezeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7016/7966/files/77309465582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7399/3890/files/is_destiny_1_still_alive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4210/3719/files/mebisusulazasunobazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9892/3427/files/febazesokanenan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8164/4697/files/lowes_return_without_receipt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2971/6374/files/18883180267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1674/1286/files/sufejijalirajebepelig.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_off00006c2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C2F 5208 bytes
SHA-256: a155f1d3ad34fee125287155e9e98874ddb1edfed492cb35b1f630172c2d21f1
font_01_sfnt_off00007e06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E06 10044 bytes
SHA-256: 441dc91c9fcbbbe56373ffd2aec99e3414679df555032336bad752aa10cfc320