Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d17a918221497e07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-19 13:33:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: de6b45768337d570d39ba05825c11d2c SHA-1: 681dc99167cf03d5a216d25f2d321966ecf99d03 SHA-256: d17a918221497e07de7520968fb516087cd624c3085c8d818dd78ae5c1323a6f
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1566 Phishing

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. One critical heuristic indicates a malicious redirector link, and another highlights a 'browser extension/update installation lure' social engineering tactic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'phishing email templates html' and includes the malicious redirector URL, reinforcing the phishing lure. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to a further stage of the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=phishing+email+templates+html In PDF document text
    • http://wewifow.therapistsmap.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/8530a706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pafudinun.406northvbclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483138/wipon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.michaelchekhovcanada.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453036/87460ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.catherinegriffith.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774993/9f562d57e262236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joxoki.fbcpercy.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384714/5649590.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/1/0432/3246/0960/files/zefukozew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3171/4202/files/2678773358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1596/8667/files/lubepawepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4815/7859/files/75027143534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6483/3686/files/93688890211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/50306279194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4301/9159/files/technical_drawing_12th_edition_giesecke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3331/9831/files/73109913789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2732/5343/files/libate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4672/1946/files/18594820811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1369/1799/files/ramoxulolunedimumaxiwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2883/0632/files/54275028048.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006b66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B66 5136 bytes
SHA-256: 8c61272468d9a7666faa0356892dca722bfabff948842076057e4a28b89d93f8
font_01_sfnt_off00007cb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CB0 10212 bytes
SHA-256: 57e91e88256c7f18fc4bf9d9cd42bbac1125a06a0306949484d749613d508858