Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccdbe0d313b1b6fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB Created: 2020-08-02 21:08:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 012699c3c706ca6cde081eaa95123f06 SHA-1: ab18c65f95b38a6b359bb90f6119fd99d998c337 SHA-256: ccdbe0d313b1b6fb56b5d054a4817e77d2f8d17e099fdfdf21017038b21c22b0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes the text 'How to make a 8muse account' and the malicious URL, suggesting a phishing or scam lure. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector indicates a drive-by download or phishing attempt.

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.com/pify?keyword=how+to+make+a+8muse+account In PDF document text
    • http://files.alcovitusa.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969403/1050e0ac341a2c5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.quinnfarm.qc.ca/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637853/pures-tikute-gojujuzafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stephaniebershyoga.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379371/1049198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spacegianthelmets.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164295/majapanifunomed_zurexusawot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.indianamorganhorse.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398598/2150234.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/1/0431/3081/4626/files/nakiribuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8622/3262/files/wijomiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5525/1605/files/struct_inheritance_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5586/4213/files/16301335440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7794/9848/files/latolepexedilawuzow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6283/4853/files/29426425230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7142/2102/files/mamitotizizefagetodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2014/0191/files/pitman_probability_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0459/1271/files/wados.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8828/9694/files/pumitogegigirazoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8684/7905/files/rebesilikotigab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3234/4736/files/sofupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3502/3765/files/tf2_brutal_bouffant.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_off00007387.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7387 4960 bytes
SHA-256: 17c6594e411f7db16d0dc10387b5534210fc2c2002d0bb0bbbdf6246f279c307
font_01_sfnt_off0000845f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x845F 13680 bytes
SHA-256: c526c87b036f31cf4115021efdf48008ac95e97fac86be45a95de41074233a97
font_02_sfnt_off0000afe1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFE1 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3