Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc00d5ac90251ae3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-08-01 23:38:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4a7ab85542314151910713633ea7e185 SHA-1: 01e873717850963adde67a8a4fd74752634ecdcc SHA-256: dc00d5ac90251ae31d0d4ea93688f0cc303361ce812d43e7de6ae4d823a1bf52
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Dale Carnegie sales training pdf' and the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=dale+carnegie+sales+training+pdf', suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of numerous Shopify links, while many are benign, indicates a link farm strategy. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links point to a social engineering attack.

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=dale+carnegie+sales+training+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.eleanormccormick.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813827/8756444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bradfordalliancechurch.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453021/011dbfe3a17e47d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.chaplainsinternationalinc.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969433/zogutu.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/24370467333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6955/5359/files/14806448858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0605/7888/files/lunikidemojox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7178/9469/files/8452005857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3593/5388/files/xituxoritonenuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4469/0337/files/ziviwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1715/0368/files/15951410295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0644/3163/files/77185925205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9200/8357/files/harry_potter_house_logos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2174/5822/files/zozifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3013/3406/files/fukegamusugano.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

Related samples 8

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006318.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6318 5320 bytes
SHA-256: d8050fcdedc20d2c44e6ce950aaad0940ba6de4f4745c8a616a2ad2927139737
font_01_sfnt_off00007548.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7548 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 10f1ac95a2192face3d25636a995d617160fdaff6ab463b736ea7b882e9f3623
font_02_sfnt_off000098f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98F6 16120 bytes
SHA-256: 88439519992b54a76c49e1773b2988ac0eb869403dfb9e9ab63ea25f7580dedb

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