Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c14eb936d7322991…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-20 11:08:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 62fb16fa0e7fee54a1ae00239a8a9d70 SHA-1: f0b721e32e56af468a31647c6fff14a7b07ea2dc SHA-256: c14eb936d732299106b8754ebe9a36afff808443f6c49c6fb50505844bd072f2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which points to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=julius+k9+idc+harness+size+guide'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a 'Julius k9 idc harness size guide'. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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=julius+k9+idc+harness+size+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.moonwaterdojo.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384429/nukinox_kusotidute_wujasekex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemaw.enduringpress.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637136/lowokurebafazul-tegaligi-vuvovodox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mortgagepolicymanual.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776447/kepim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://borenaxu.asb-expan.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681464/vilelowunepodo.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/1/0433/8758/4675/files/45104317428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6626/9597/files/android_secret_code_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3273/9989/files/alumina_processing_properties_and_applications.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1550/4029/files/fujukajeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/4429/5076/files/br_ambedkar_biography.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2182/0326/files/35107958668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6022/3382/files/desktop_media_query.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_off000065dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65DC 5460 bytes
SHA-256: 083583663086c0e1a58f7b51e45c45d56e9965d40cd5fbed9942cd748b6b330c
font_01_sfnt_off00007860.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7860 10376 bytes
SHA-256: c03459d288cbe1f685d09e879dd856ee946fca33a354729f23ea606b26e55f3f