Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4ca10347b248b5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.4 KB Created: 2020-08-20 03:39:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 07526fd0c7c1cb1e84b2d86d8bfa8322 SHA-1: db8f2c7f63632faa38d29d47917e34fb4be0c09f SHA-256: c4ca10347b248b5d0eaa166f75f014db46ada83f7ee5a0f1f53365f8a298c7fb
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as an admission form, which is a common lure for phishing attacks. The PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic firing confirms the link leads to known malicious infrastructure. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting an attempt to obscure the malicious destination. The document body itself contains the lure text and the malicious URL.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=du+admission+form+2018+ug+fees In PDF document text
    • http://files.exleyfarms.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438557/gikovitijot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.markbury.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740524/benimogerapaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tobyupci.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814784/68b7a0eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruzolujup.getmovingpt.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775734/nalawiti.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/1/0433/2286/7880/files/30674654276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5697/2455/files/98861822516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0655/6320/files/wavelet_matlab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2884/8538/files/gugutajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4093/1991/files/97654809276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6477/1238/files/69068380839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4407/7722/files/zugawezovape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0500/8293/files/dobawixaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4392/1820/files/clinical_chemistry_bishop_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9989/6475/files/7294047252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7892/7014/files/jenuvozasumubugefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/musigusuwekun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0234/files/dovepaxobomevume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7728/0671/files/fuwagetufeziripevot.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
🗂 Part of campaign: onelegchallenge.org 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008d86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D86 5712 bytes
SHA-256: 16962e9d767aeff89ac52aee74bbc882891e66fa02a26b1f916056df4cd528d9
font_01_sfnt_off0000a0df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0DF 10428 bytes
SHA-256: b504bf4cba7cfbd76a573516767f4423191b679a175cf9ed60689666f4bbadc9