Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88deedcc71e20acc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-07 01:48:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c2cd07d5d74a3c17bae76bd69dfb8ef5 SHA-1: dd9a823b61acce9e33200441be71558087aed2dd SHA-256: 88deedcc71e20acc22563bd0f8fb299c4de74e8f9ae4194efce6bba49d3dea63
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The primary redirector URL is identified as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to editing PDFs and the malicious redirector URL, indicating a social engineering attempt to trick users into clicking the link. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score support this assessment.

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=how+to+edit+a+pdf+file+for+free+on+mac In PDF document text
    • http://dewat.losalamitosunit716.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407406/wimudefoninenasem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lotusbud.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452904/482975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.crosswindsfarmcreamery.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969471/b675bdb3b2450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hollyncoletta.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070178/7214957.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/1/0450/2428/0726/files/daydream_believer_piano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6980/8550/files/fafodusupat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/43396058945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0952/3355/files/zivejibaliviribelivonate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/datumaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8065/5775/files/nudogudizadaxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8361/9736/files/ielts_academic_writing_task_1_sample_answer_band_9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4946/0636/files/91519359126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6795/7660/files/conduction_of_heat_in_solids_carslaw_jaeger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7115/1007/files/power_amplifier_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5348/2135/files/losetofovevepoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8867/files/gewijiletinor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9682/6273/files/7822200788.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_off0000646f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x646F 5176 bytes
SHA-256: 333a5ce28634bc8a603fcebbb437f4742a383a3d6ef831ef41369a6b108179c7
font_01_sfnt_off00007606.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7606 10284 bytes
SHA-256: 3356e66c34e292ad80a2a94ca8a82cab648b84d1557c31b4bce2e4350c0ba60e

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