Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88b15ea06ef7206c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-07-28 07:58:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 54ae8ef40950a91a44a058fe605c8599 SHA-1: 97804a9f18aa0432320c39bf21b0938cf33013c1 SHA-256: 88b15ea06ef7206ca41ae4246d01ef305303673222bbfd431457e1e0b746fc99
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to potentially harmful websites. The ML classifier strongly supports maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to phone models and a redirector URL, reinforcing the lure for a scam or phishing attempt.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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.com/pify?keyword=best+android+one+phones+under+15000 In PDF document text
    • http://files.hawkknifedesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437181/ruvuvilunaw-bukob-gimadesikun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.arizonalife.rocks/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695492/banutuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fancy-kitty.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814714/9da97cd.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/1/0433/3309/1480/files/80947304115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/57955619809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0522/2822/files/ruwulofip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gidawibozifuniji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0939/2285/files/22941025962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5578/2817/files/vagunexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8659/3694/files/85558415290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/94766401197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1322/6139/files/55734576544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5677/5839/files/1758729463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6563/9069/files/tapadapuxegorikejira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nozawilod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9643/8936/files/diritakizojanikaruvagod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6863/7862/files/67874397201.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000734f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x734F 5264 bytes
SHA-256: 03bf756dd0b8e018e0b2cdb888c8724ca312e11b08894129beb8010505fa1b26
font_01_sfnt_off00008528.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8528 10408 bytes
SHA-256: d23272f0a103a9f0779879e657a2bbf3401eced20d837a334031434dadcabd82

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