Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5580589a3ac1153…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2020-08-24 13:39:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c14f15d5810f7a0eed6ab9d91fefb6ea SHA-1: 129719399ec930cb36ed0d869595c9fa15a9c169 SHA-256: c5580589a3ac115313c89ee9a3372cf99b815fea06b2cdc5f744182201abc708
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=chest+guidelines+anticoagulation+reversal', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and appears to be a lure related to medical guidelines. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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=chest+guidelines+anticoagulation+reversal In PDF document text
    • http://zekipene.teddingtonbowlsclub.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681233/binidoxawubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.houseoflifeonline.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379919/vurevikadunozur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sesefupi.wembdon-sunshiners.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814297/9874719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3313/3209/files/letube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/0232/3094/files/quantum-_dot_cellular_automata_design_guideline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/libertango_classical_guitar_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5057/2695/files/15831765488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7952/2717/files/jobojowarojukulobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/uk_childhood_immunisation_schedule_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3680/3233/files/vonaxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6660/5211/files/90976552605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1715/0368/files/sogagedimixinapawun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/5015/1584/files/sprint_email_to_text.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3082/3583/files/2254796761.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_off0000c23d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC23D 5168 bytes
SHA-256: 2b8b308b02aeb048baa73eb659686cfecced24af6682c80726c5f2a5c52a7657
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3C3 12788 bytes
SHA-256: 8418f928effad182fbfdcc70c4cafc4fc706c2b44f56d0bd0fee02392fbab7c8
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC70 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3