Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec17e0579901c960…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-04 23:52:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 970ec1e17b46176ffbb1ce2317e3af4e SHA-1: af62bb113ff5c3475bb73de2288c977358a0dfe9 SHA-256: ec17e0579901c9608ce5eaca26a28f44b9d14da40b664fcaa7bf2417c2e8d22b
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of external links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting seemingly benign PDFs, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that is also flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt using a link farm to obscure the final malicious destination.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=dastak+career+coaching+notes+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.bittersweetapothecary.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814996/menepowalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wmbilljones.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437683/2105466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mapleridgechristmasfestival.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776304/16c82bc.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/1/0432/2754/5757/files/human_digestive_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2052/5476/files/gurodujoruwuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2282/8198/files/butog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9315/5230/files/67291760569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5042/5750/files/32969464349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/52325197595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1184/0927/files/zonakirulaguxupifij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fixasitisajixumazurezeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9728/5027/files/zofofapoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6193/6290/files/99340353712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4542/9160/files/bodowapeves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5106/5243/files/r_read_csv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9004/3287/files/96801490299.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_off0000622c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x622C 5448 bytes
SHA-256: 371331ac20b61a1a564df99b73c8091d85746203b177e315975b2a4ee307410c
font_01_sfnt_off000074bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74BF 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 805f01b23199ca682043336d2f03bdcbb6ce220bf0531a6ebe64e4b38bdc14d8