Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec0757f440a4c4be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-18 20:06:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5645a75f5ec2049622791a5b20348a70 SHA-1: a438a8a389427e025137c7b4f6590e7a7da2ae14 SHA-256: ec0757f440a4c4bef823deb571cba3be9fc6a99c8685b989dacfd571fdd81f04
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to external PDF files hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=infernal+mage+osrs+slayer+guide'. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains text related to a game guide and the redirector URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking malicious links. The presence of numerous external links also indicates a link farm, a common tactic for SEO manipulation or distributing malicious content.

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=infernal+mage+osrs+slayer+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.empyreanwinds.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438741/bojepupizikex_luxetu_pikoxizur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nepaxe.heykatedewey.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738962/vabovesibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hotspringsrallync.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382583/1379597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reruvi.suemannpaintings.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/bemip_dowojojogev_vejevejukobol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tyngsboroughpto.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969775/jimatizan_vojiwenubevimi_dulazusupebevo.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/1/0429/4007/2092/files/6032444752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7319/1587/files/banakeligupevinan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7282/3202/files/4877448205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/4054/1593/files/siwagasawakiwukuxexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6336/2204/files/8032937291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4582/6210/files/catechism_of_the_catholic_church_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2192/5537/files/kayak_fishing_report_san_diego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5731/4983/files/lavezixamufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0762/2817/files/characteristics_of_effective_information_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4211/9592/files/teruzumanasarogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4151/2855/files/jodovesotavilib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4550/9537/files/textbook_of_medical_virology_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8226/1415/files/16647240521.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_off0000677c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x677C 5264 bytes
SHA-256: e392e855fd453741bd65e66454aef176f553c4d8020f69924459cfe94f2f20a8
font_01_sfnt_off0000794e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x794E 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 8e8292793bff98dd7683a3093614fd860ff50844f7fa0bffbdf6b7730df43c42