Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70cb155bb644c18e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-11 23:08:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b9e7130e8f68f05540b73c0b10b295c0 SHA-1: 8455bf1d6e760a608e223ed621a95eebf494e10c SHA-256: 70cb155bb644c18e367bce96b3138f4f2e18a02bda2ec7e3d8d4ee5ad6fbd3f3
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a primary redirector URL pointing to a known malicious infrastructure. The document body and heuristics indicate a lure to "PDF to Word" conversion, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict, and the presence of numerous external links points to a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic.

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.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • 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=pdf+to+word+macro In PDF document text
    • http://files.metaphorboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454883/4846898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stseachnalls.ie/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739315/1250517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bskyfitness.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381450/tipej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5725/8395/files/boxoxujivig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7110/3395/files/agile_project_management_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3319/6706/files/cataloging_and_classification_an_introduction.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6310/8003/files/carnet_de_sante_france.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6154/2054/files/42738968112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4296/3613/files/75139496445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3708/2271/files/avery._com_templates_5163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6924/3553/files/sawujosasixuniguwiguxebut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7794/9848/files/carmel_by_the_sea_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6749/8911/files/mezidinobejoralute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6640/9639/files/guwugugunalasebegiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9482/6405/files/webus.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006550.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6550 4568 bytes
SHA-256: 648ea070b65055b267d7c904031fe77374d6d40cdc77beaf7b22ac9e7c10cf45
font_01_sfnt_off000074d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74D0 9860 bytes
SHA-256: 1ab08def4828b0f38e9dbe062c32982a96780752a14d0b51ff3fc65ca2a44bb3
font_02_sfnt_off00009690.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9690 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c