Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d14018cd9ce9c44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-01 13:47:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c5569673062c5085945b5de3b85fee3a SHA-1: 5199af2bd782c35e62e28e5754e04a1951303ed0 SHA-256: 6d14018cd9ce9c440dd203fdf8efe1f5fc43ac9faf149ae6728353199387a276
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known for malicious activity. The document body, though partially obfuscated, includes the primary redirector URL, suggesting an attempt to lead the user to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the assessment of a phishing or redirection attack.

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=git+merge+last+two+commits In PDF document text
    • http://files.cmleukemia.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453499/3835673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.inaroadchurch.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775362/litogipeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.outfitterswig.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606094/6046343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.motionxsynergy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775228/6288533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.catawbacountyfood.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816096/471d87fd.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/1/0439/0381/1739/files/83188903596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0265/7957/files/essentials_of_stochastic_processes_solution_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9785/8972/files/51160912439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6741/6488/files/tibumojazelenigakirag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0141/1744/files/xesiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3420/5590/files/16181742405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3349/2641/files/fenik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0581/2629/files/sigexajiwesuguruzido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2853/6734/files/xawexurerozexujezuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3373/9932/files/41545828987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4146/5244/files/linafejatujonavosit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3594/9218/files/warazejetuketemerevekis.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_off0000622b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x622B 5244 bytes
SHA-256: 2cc0fa597893dde49927ea4b637a91d24d8b73aad83b725232e34d62e0c6e439
font_01_sfnt_off000073fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73FE 15476 bytes
SHA-256: a6c4944d6ba03c2dc5784fceaf37c3cca75153b020f9d65444b91ee22fcc2018