Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 772c6eeb1784edbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.1 KB Created: 2020-08-20 14:15:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c03ef38750b40d84a6b4d6104081d98f SHA-1: 8ffdc719d30e04eca8206f9fe6004f6f0284855a SHA-256: 772c6eeb1784edbf904ef176fbe17562ff21bdba78ca60b45ce100c15d48cc97
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious domain, identified as a redirector for potentially harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content.

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.
  • SEO-redirector lure link (multi-word utm_term) low PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the search-keyword gateway used by the 'free document download' phishing family. Surfaced as an IOC; on its own this is a low-confidence signal.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=movies++sites+in+hd+free+telugu In PDF document text
    • http://files.eleyhooper.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740212/ba7479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.danielakphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453283/juvuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misalinu.americanabytheseashore.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482976/3935516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.leandremeldener.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407357/zelinomuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.elevationmotorsportsca.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775506/8838506.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/1/0430/8218/6905/files/mifupujif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0138/7936/files/69247666512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3233/0908/files/felajelenozisenoxaxotosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0023/3110/files/importance_of_balance_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5398/files/dukuligu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0867/2423/files/jadipajemizurewikexapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8998/3640/files/xepewuzakitiwuxuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3923/3960/files/mixed_magazine_models.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1959/2102/files/9874642161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5733/9813/files/cisco_ccna_lab_workbook_200_120.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_off00008256.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8256 5024 bytes
SHA-256: 307cd33dbb4fd99aed82681384aa43758ba618101f3b3992848d54ca53fc88f2
font_01_sfnt_off00009371.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9371 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 41b75554bba722a0a63abecd250a7ceb040b46ef1f2914cb0b41cfe1c7ad1ad0