Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c87f5e23d553d497…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-09 10:49:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 50f0956156e5165d05e43f453d7dc826 SHA-1: 83838b3298268090469f12d4f20a94bdd0c1502f SHA-256: c87f5e23d553d49795cfae619d9ab53d971214adde24e9331110bfbf0c7ae2f6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL which is designed to appear as a search result for a technical book, likely to trick users into clicking. The presence of numerous other links to Shopify domains suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase the visibility of the malicious redirector.

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=data+structures+and+algorithms+in+c+pdf+schaum+series In PDF document text
    • http://gikoluxer.landinarizona.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381428/nogametosix_minolop_jusexe_pomapixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dianalara-somatics.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438150/sinuboxusulogigutese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jamesdouglasmultimedia.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/584417a81ddf8.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/1/0431/1816/6167/files/24196448176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0931/8813/files/nabudafagumidelepanogifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5115/5618/files/3821885909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6993/9612/files/31932720296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0742/4158/files/zijanokebetujuwunenanevas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2915/8295/files/69599723474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2479/3245/files/ccna_1_portugues.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1103/0683/files/dajajasidabajuwaxelil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3251/8555/files/download_wondershareelement_full_crack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3667/2162/files/92893005048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9801/3845/files/embroidery_stitch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3308/4575/files/vijorujafebovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0298/6659/files/biduvifevod.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_off00006184.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6184 5452 bytes
SHA-256: 619bdf05e29d3cc6e9d5c68f37b61d90b1521092e5ce851f7171e686e8d69f9e
font_01_sfnt_off000073e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73E0 10936 bytes
SHA-256: f3e84b4e459274fe299d4a02acd3af1380c979eb3889be1f2ac2dcb71ca6874c
font_02_sfnt_off000098fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98FB 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378