Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce2c6d6c54599e89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-08-05 23:57:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 859f01697c8c5e47ebebd7f4961e3ad9 SHA-1: 0a84f83ec3ce88c3e9fc86962470cefbf9356282 SHA-256: ce2c6d6c54599e89d5330988e858ef8326833c7cce6101be6f2ed227889ec980
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many of which point to benign Shopify URLs, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Leading through digital disruption pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. No scripts were extracted, limiting further analysis of the payload.

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=leading+through+digital+disruption+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.chloewomack.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740073/3409790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aliveleadership.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607029/bijewonirifumakodojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valobiku.houseofhempobx.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681579/5520879.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/1/0439/4047/9131/files/balada_para_elisa_partitura_piano_pdf_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2289/8584/files/sims_4_mac_torrent.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8290/6789/files/zokitukarumedop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4677/9552/files/38809802552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1555/8552/files/25905699880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5431/8239/files/baximega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4542/7102/files/79272257917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2588/9442/files/boregekofabinasubeteseki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2052/5461/files/fijati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6924/3549/files/78747952607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1137/5267/files/26371147370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1013/0073/files/60914231279.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_off00005f08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F08 5244 bytes
SHA-256: 24fcc359b33f7cfe4e8a0435b6704cb1fd0fbd5167ced9548a59d6408b5cdab8
font_01_sfnt_off000070dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70DD 9752 bytes
SHA-256: 496cd2b0ef29f0eb21a36cbb26fb9ff27b40d5cd078981660e19ec25a3456950

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