Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8fffbdbdb18f7d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-02 15:39:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9ad4187f9f3d097fb49c15538eafc0f3 SHA-1: bb45f109316cbfc343e46d081f953d156fdfbd9c SHA-256: c8fffbdbdb18f7d1fcf136be36dc6be4508188deb21e600d4b50de4cb767816d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text referencing 'Centurylink dsl light red' and includes the malicious redirector URL. This suggests the document is a lure to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=centurylink+dsl+light+red In PDF document text
    • http://files.ellen-rose.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381363/moxonepekizason_tobirirof_vubino_kiwuvikuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.keyspeechtherapy.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378990/kiradobud_modawatibad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gordonjames.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739993/tawajizoguda_dixogurozela_dipebefiromu_xorobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ohmylashuk.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452750/605191c5a7da.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/1/0429/3551/7337/files/nibibegado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6300/8661/files/80242663962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2476/9436/files/xusamilenugekedavogabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9501/4042/files/vinaverul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/20424522606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4410/8453/files/romezurodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9715/3943/files/82939820148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5815/7982/files/79692479991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2149/1621/files/43563061706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4272/5275/files/pokemon_diamond_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5480/7717/files/3_idiots_english_sub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9235/1907/files/bizatugedunebasozare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6053/5196/files/97108884403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7809/0901/files/mebuzonevono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5097/5910/files/mefivupowage.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_off00006f57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F57 4948 bytes
SHA-256: f94c89f8f001155cae79e78e0b9e3a71dc459a7717cab314bc729637c2a3a5f2
font_01_sfnt_off0000802f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x802F 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 382d55e94390224c6fa0eba142d2df407e017c91677edd9e9bac104ee0138c82