Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce29917f495d47dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.4 KB Created: 2020-08-18 20:39:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: de8b2c77d49446bb4610d10d144ca4d5 SHA-1: 18382a1b23dea9c3f8ac813e9a4ec58fffcaeccf SHA-256: ce29917f495d47dd3eb2486889ef0fe158b914d26be5056022abb40ca47e2987
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Couplet care report sheet' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick the user into clicking the link. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=couplet+care+report+sheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.inzonecoaching.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303219/7897598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nopipa.bellydancebyraena.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814050/vemavadavuzuge_xajodetiki_tiviget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.orlandokb1.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710491/5917599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rgbeautybodyspa.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695242/tavufezibipivep_raxes_mozemajovela.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/1/0432/8721/6293/files/tri_county_community_college_moodle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4094/8892/files/skate_3_cheat_codes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6636/8935/files/forumeteselumasez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7439/6058/files/niduforudabapilora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0453/4956/8667/files/algebra_in_msc_mathematics_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7264/3491/files/android_studio_gitignore_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6893/9672/files/jusijulepesam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7542/6721/files/cisco_3750v2_datasheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6572/0486/files/piripomikugebesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2634/1278/files/recommendation_letter_template_for_fellowship.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8501/1873/files/xixuwiguno.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
    • 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_off00007985.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7985 4928 bytes
SHA-256: 3759c1d88dd6c0c51b394b1420005c944a60275e9b1eb836e28165de1909e5d0
font_01_sfnt_off00008a3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A3C 10572 bytes
SHA-256: e250ec0e6beafcac5be8c93d045aa2bf69814833738c6d399e853373a489348c
font_02_sfnt_off0000ae9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE9D 16472 bytes
SHA-256: 99805584694da40b03156dff3bf6f07dd1df52bbdd03b5ef66e00f913caf3980