Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e63c26dfeaf06cdf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-08-06 19:11:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 93b717196dbd784ca6b84163817115ed SHA-1: 0e413d397f9aaef3a015b3f175c869add4a192c4 SHA-256: e63c26dfeaf06cdfb31fb93b40957aa22819a48e26ccb6524e14f4848933aa97
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to a URL that includes 'creative company profile design pdf'. This URL is designed to lure the user into clicking it. The document also contains a PDF link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. The embedded URL in the document body further reinforces the malicious redirector attempt.

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=creative+company+profile+design+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.readingsync.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969494/dekun-tezeri-bunegedur-jukugagibudojib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.swhtambulance.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814958/wobiwikenuta-xiburaxukulowo-mijugezopeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oldjohnsrugbyclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856247/3280166.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tobilefoseparavako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2071/4137/files/saroniraje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7194/6398/files/73759336198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5249/8070/files/staples_paper_shredder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2682/4863/files/23769671864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5331/8298/files/bepusofarufer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2004/1886/files/3464589774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4315/1272/files/rirajisuziwadutafewen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2853/7753/files/dikifowaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5308/7897/files/62279299670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4279/1839/files/zisakujojoguforafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xutuxajaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9708/7390/files/crear_base_de_datos_sql.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007c55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C55 5540 bytes
SHA-256: 257ecc25a9c64e4e520c24b649b45e5798cbc5f7554166b3493e02fd43c36db8
font_01_sfnt_off00008f28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F28 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 0ff0f24a90adde7cc6f12844925f86066313a281f3710ee8ed79e51e7e3c5fdd

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