Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5b4155095a86205…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-12 23:31:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1d9edaa698f37feaf561e412c6a2b0ca SHA-1: cdd189ec1a8cd8adcdb6ceb953288a090d1c9c14 SHA-256: d5b4155095a862050eb3ca6aac02bf71a6c99f73929b01f9da2867352f39513f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document is identified as malicious due to its inclusion of links to known malicious redirectors. It also contains a large number of SEO-optimized links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is a common tactic for distributing malicious content. The document body text, while appearing to be a catalog, is a lure to encourage users to click on the embedded malicious links.

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=catalogo+de+abrigos+price+shoes+2020+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pelivep.redmondacademy.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858540/sevabupabuzage-sagigipifugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.celebrationcatering.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163736/kutenuzagibaselu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.soulography1111.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739081/098b7390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hairqueenmd.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070904/porevapolejedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mubegun.treeoflifementoring.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738970/7028980.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/1/0434/1779/6770/files/fewebajumupomevolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9432/7961/files/78986249290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7417/4622/files/gobalebidov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3684/3933/files/tekene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6174/6595/files/patas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8925/5847/files/wuwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9941/3925/files/tatoduti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3096/0536/files/8372960209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1416/8480/files/nudimaxozokutusidowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4308/4705/files/english_worksheets_for_kindergarten_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9618/7815/files/favofamiluwodedudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1480/5914/files/wing_chun_wooden_dummy_techniques.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1753/3597/files/advanced_java_tutorialspoint.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_off00005a59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A59 5736 bytes
SHA-256: 24194e6aa6f0b23ce933631b0ce6ef4b2645c30d1c0127521ec2303a6eb0b76b
font_01_sfnt_off00006dd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DD8 11928 bytes
SHA-256: 10cd41b06d86714a3dbf464b56b3e400187458258dd7ab0728c3995f6c29bbfa