Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b63ede403d80b0af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.8 KB Created: 2020-08-09 06:13:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 94075d50e093e45a27840deab17d5153 SHA-1: 1fc7220af7cfcdd07af88da7a2a90def1c733742 SHA-256: b63ede403d80b0afcaf563ae2045dfa1887ceb8254559a25b2fa81c6e11eb287
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to a known malicious redirector. The primary malicious link is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=astm+b117+16+pdf, which is designed to redirect users to further malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting a programmatic approach to creating this link farm.

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=astm+b117+16+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.633stclair.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606335/305c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.acuedge.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874416/9663850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.laurajoart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455832/zilitutekera_davikowuk_rukafefi_foponixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.olenkaschoolofmusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814758/8408966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunigiga.shannonmcferrinfineartist.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406717/636389.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/1/0440/6099/9830/files/53079753922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2965/9805/files/munson_fluid_mechanics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0507/4838/files/93817469839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51108684678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4691/9579/files/artisanal_mining_in_zimbabwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9232/0161/files/29361558083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9019/8180/files/welopevosaretatunopevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8748/7395/files/metamezagonirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3171/4199/files/70396464133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9318/7989/files/67846517522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1664/9890/files/91503692931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9721/0532/files/54926541476.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_off0000820a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x820A 3140 bytes
SHA-256: 0479f8e136fb152e2b26a8f5d0344bbb34065f507ec87bfa69dae4354fdaf78c
font_01_sfnt_off00008d4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D4F 5264 bytes
SHA-256: d75ac3611f1fdcd09a8972879d93df9a6e284045220d8d9970a430154c9dc67d
font_02_sfnt_off00009f35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F35 10244 bytes
SHA-256: 8d92219c13c6b8e7cfbd8b2a46e16998a8d48f7f58dd9c03689390447e253fee