Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdc035955b79dae2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-08-07 08:59:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a997c9c1368c82ca75ef87f7c4586900 SHA-1: f28674050ab1940f76fa0c34082b36764c5404a2 SHA-256: cdc035955b79dae2a94e41944d72296ab33ef8d273fb888ac6e9411b5c6871e7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with 30 external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify domains, designed to appear as legitimate content. One of these links, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=apodemus+sylvaticus+pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain the URLs as part of its content.

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=apodemus+sylvaticus+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.miamfoundation.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408353/lovilosufululixona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thesustainableregistry.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606874/pepafesuraxar_xuzedoxujasinit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fopel.grayskullbooking.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454065/857586.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/1/0429/9109/1875/files/71967422385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4469/2383/files/47610599032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4411/9462/files/boginakebokufoboworem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0737/7567/files/nuvil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/29480145432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9178/7937/files/bizuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2226/1143/files/56441742163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wanojexabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0101/1614/files/85033454441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2998/7489/files/54078307867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4294/7750/files/kawuzolabulofenuvitawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7964/6878/files/transit_maps_of_the_world.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000786e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x786E 5356 bytes
SHA-256: 632ce7cd4c271f25264588263753e5af677ab45e71e76533e40d318623369567
font_01_sfnt_off00008aa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AA7 10104 bytes
SHA-256: 6ff48560bb7d8a4e470ad298af816386577bccd79ae1255cb5463f8ff714d46e

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