Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf5e9975f8ab18fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.8 KB Created: 2020-08-15 04:51:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1e2b16084c48830143115133a5c09f6b SHA-1: 1a699275d4fd1b95263c49169309fda4032e81bb SHA-256: cf5e9975f8ab18fde6bfa4b820766c518afbb7bd1597efa30e2936e1b46dc011
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the malicious redirector found by heuristics. This suggests the PDF is designed to trick users into clicking malicious links, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=bahubali+2+movie++720p+worldfree4u In PDF document text
    • http://xajizido.reddsocialstudies.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482952/moxita-wegobu-jafaxujosumoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.culturallycompetentkids.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775498/27c010a8e278c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gumzseed.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969429/1511956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oroxflexo.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398419/1849253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.elmsband.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739232/d1f947cc5a.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/1/0454/3460/1640/files/main_points_of_18th_amendment_in_pakistan_constitution.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6177/2442/files/55923398145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8885/5718/files/39517791486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5068/6874/files/antithyroid_drugs_pharmacology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6294/3144/files/61197722596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2393/2311/files/45715301707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1268/4967/files/reforma_aeroporto_santos_dumont_panrotas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4885/2894/files/cen-_tech_digital_multimeter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2529/9606/files/sikusomodagivusonip.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013707.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13707 12404 bytes
SHA-256: e0cace0fbb8ed1ed38388b3f0c286755c8210c5fc51d41ebee94f99f66d87297
font_01_sfnt_off00015fc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15FC5 5584 bytes
SHA-256: 3551eccc4e136843ea7a9a19a2f2e6f4e2b04d77e866fe79d0b1fea43d8bb4b9
font_02_sfnt_off000172d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x172D1 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 791295e0911cb9b197df6ccc0035577c72428438732d5e0cbcef0a8a1820d2f7
font_03_sfnt_off00019948.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19948 16164 bytes
SHA-256: e296a61d2d303e35be9e1a35631556663d2780498efa7e8f3867bf557f172fe6
font_04_sfnt_off0001ae5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AE5F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34