Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2710db91d88ecce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2020-07-31 21:09:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c26e4b9647654979c29e3062a79c14d9 SHA-1: cfb57ec78d9a609fe478d57bbc908a5cf24f790a SHA-256: c2710db91d88eccee2b245b00be50ef39d687c150854c76dc43ff358cd7d4c1a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link farm and a redirector link to a known malicious domain, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL as the redirector, suggesting it's the primary lure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.com/pify?keyword=tv+listings+memphis In PDF document text
    • http://files.elisewatness.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872178/d3df1940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.irondan.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453919/a99a4b96f6a2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oregoncouponing.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775737/votisutijeju_gakona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.valleyliberator.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606035/padavosagog.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/1/0431/6053/5196/files/tabatomamudupogubusavupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9191/1066/files/likukojew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8198/1347/files/61950417595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2186/8960/files/zamesafulafoput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9143/5422/files/19647572384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3482/1287/files/11404596982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0781/9422/files/7333762428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3550/9415/files/24230477727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6799/8362/files/73491585171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5083/5876/files/the_five_heartbeats_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0687/0183/files/70511588925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6859/6123/files/87149691645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1811/7543/files/86454953323.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_off0000c90b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC90B 4936 bytes
SHA-256: 5fd9e84ea896814465d5f2b709de58ead41b01c0b782d3aba618bf2c5723f0a2
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9BB 16952 bytes
SHA-256: f60387eba0d5021fe1d8f127cc7746280a0ca3629a4dc02e73a9b5f1f7f18d2b

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