Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d60e51667af0ee73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-04 06:29:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a925a154267318c3ac8318dc68159a77 SHA-1: b3b2e305d6e2bc8fa2a5aab1beff633771765b99 SHA-256: d60e51667af0ee732b776beb3e2ab73e50cb62caa1bbacc9d9786be502c07fa7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, appears to be a lure related to 'definition of motivation by different authors pdf'. The presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to drive traffic to malicious or compromised sites, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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.ru/pify?keyword=definition+of+motivation+by+different+authors+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.owensphotography.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163684/kigidomefusido_rodifogariw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.peterkimpeterkim.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383823/fiwokozebemovaxuxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.artandroulla.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380773/6e51b943ebb202b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.drranshaw.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813696/7406660.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/1/0431/6299/2795/files/xipelewapeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2929/0390/files/69567169839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6690/1148/files/goxoxepenasuropabidovagov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1899/3320/files/dibodunef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6946/3959/files/zopobatinekom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6060/9692/files/99887406137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4436/4710/files/bazasesenavixumurowutozaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7176/6690/files/67594037393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3237/0584/files/upcoming_concerts_bay_area.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7317/4680/files/92953604036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/93616534700.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006619.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6619 5432 bytes
SHA-256: f31b310d1355d3879b560c7edce0ba29cf408a295d7fd162479be5b65241c4fa
font_01_sfnt_off00007866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7866 9940 bytes
SHA-256: 9166a2be3ed77a345bcac64bc952f18f160fc08a094f22ed31dc57919eea9862
font_02_sfnt_off00009a33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A33 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333

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