Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec22c5b220aa2e51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-12 15:52:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 89742bcf29036fe5194db0ed183dc299 SHA-1: faf321584a3ddca2bab9491c018c8039881c0154 SHA-256: ec22c5b220aa2e5179b5010a408d23d0c1c327a93f919614e4a527a5baf834c2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains references to the malicious URL and other URLs hosted on Shopify and various file-sharing domains. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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.com/pify?keyword=alistair+macleod+short+stories+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.g3valeting.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437680/vonutixepepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.prigitalsolutions.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775441/gufaberejud-jufonawav-wixapevaba-gotikex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.scotlandmassage.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607010/1232f16b9139079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.toadtheatre.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814529/womowevawik-ragekabaxomef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bopivexin.revolution-by-distribution.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710657/joleraluxupagegasere.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/1/0436/3304/9753/files/libros_de_lectura_para_aprender_ingles_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8293/8520/files/roxotomapizelovavesavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5224/2856/files/zoology_projects_for_class_12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1230/9670/files/golden_dawn_tarot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4433/8838/files/nujimigefeneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0544/3237/files/libegosed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5005/0460/files/liwenote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4555/2290/files/polev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7034/0772/files/netiwomovak.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/1/0439/6243/3694/files/gejala_hepatoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2246/7740/files/31579227989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7400/1825/files/arauco_mdf_catalogo_2020.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_off00006c37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C37 5384 bytes
SHA-256: c1b0bc3176ea378ffcedb4e16b2000abc65533852a7be8f37e558c49f7ef8473
font_01_sfnt_off00007e52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E52 9680 bytes
SHA-256: e546375dac580fb7bb921bf96cac67b2e79ecd9170bd36391078718641169aed