Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc2c50c3be17c646…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB Created: 2020-09-28 16:57:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 01c8c3609fd70ce9b6044e9ec11e26cd SHA-1: 15c1cffc9c29628c8a9749705a66e33a7ea636b1 SHA-256: cc2c50c3be17c646d31ccc7c5f5fe3b11d54db7be6a01f9d988ad8f18a83d57f
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links designed to redirect users to malicious websites, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristics. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that aligns with the malicious redirection pattern. 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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/mozel?keyword=cbse+books+for+class+8+maths+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.pinnacleflycutter.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969561/bewizude_loxufakanepona_rogedozokovibot_puxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lymeaustralia.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606035/zixoredote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cochranetotaltree.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607331/8197360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036832.mozfiles.com/files/1036832/23093636794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.terrilundquist.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163838/102226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vewodemi.clientsviews.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874411/a06ebcc9d54.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.broadstonefootballclub.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740084/90209dc20dc5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.artyxan.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739504/wiveguwukajujox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pacetrailseries.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406435/3307131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://ebfbf0a4-36c5-4902-b04f-25f93a3a3587.filesusr.com/ugd/361f4b_db1149e399aa4028aa1956d6b8e4d682.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8d33c333-2520-49e4-9997-1b968205ef40.filesusr.com/ugd/9c8fb9_4c3415349e59492fb6aa6c625dd7d6f5.pdf?index=trueIn 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007335.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7335 5700 bytes
SHA-256: 034cec48868b2bf0f03a41d4556f318eb143d4da5ecbacbe76063670bddc4af3
font_01_sfnt_off0000866d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x866D 10148 bytes
SHA-256: 6afb78200427567c2806c2bff737054867a981b02894d73775434545f01a364d
font_02_sfnt_off0000a92e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA92E 16068 bytes
SHA-256: b1615e29a4fe6c7320d553a30418b4fece26933a192be804fa4a6c1955e67a67