Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d87881c5da434b4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2020-08-01 23:30:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 236edfa024557b2e96e5937976f77c1e SHA-1: 995182f0cfcbb0c3397087970961e3d99521526f SHA-256: d87881c5da434b4d6286f27b0ade7ff9d46d2ac33ec1a0e200769d184d295d67
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a lure suggesting the user needs to install a browser extension or update to view content, which is a common social engineering tactic. It also contains a link to a redirector, `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=heath+ledgers+autopsy`, which is associated with malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The presence of a link farm and a redirector suggests an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=heath+ledgers+autopsy In PDF document text
    • http://files.epumc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739169/9215041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theplantshelf.store/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407080/e8a7bb45e9c997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.arabellasheen.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873903/6361905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theangeltech.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874207/3563b0fb353f0af.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/1/0428/6038/0327/files/munewuvogelow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4162/8072/files/gelurorazuvolelopevuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8117/9048/files/xiralopibamafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/72710717911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1481/5901/files/62289391762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3128/1312/files/71794242816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1924/7514/files/nobijupezusigawamakexusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6961/1935/files/zavegene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0925/3281/files/kugapurafugorow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dojezurin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8604/4570/files/34502579186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3146/1016/files/bokef.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_off0001301c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1301C 5284 bytes
SHA-256: 163e266e34fc5a45d8b671b8dd907fd7f6a1780a3241f0f4ec3c09d84ec62ac6
font_01_sfnt_off00014214.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14214 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 5957c6890e44c72d879b783f79d590874f0d986a89714d983efba4f443ebc919