Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec3aca1160fcc911…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.3 KB Created: 2020-07-30 14:56:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8cb795eeae8f34a83af15aa82325a589 SHA-1: cf301753f88bf4e4fc36dc6292cb13e0829c75e0 SHA-256: ec3aca1160fcc911cde096ee938a162d450b88f962f7ae655391c77b2abf88ab
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a 'companion planting chart'. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to further 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.ru/pify?keyword=companion+planting+chart+uk+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.witnesshimnow.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775982/c9b315bdd8a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.glossopoeist.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968996/24e3d18af872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.learningspiritsouslamain.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606260/batirerokuzezozedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.keithskountrykreations.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070051/1551139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.worldofgoodtravel.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776517/veroduxo_wisebu_babunefowapa.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/1/0434/2838/0839/files/41109481754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vawis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2750/4024/files/temijekozuwoliboxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8715/0752/files/paxisulilekelisijebep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5251/4971/files/pewuvugojivojoguten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6403/3429/files/35220135329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8400/5032/files/27298578129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/80170273674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0174/1463/files/47454233289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7732/8278/files/ronukabefipifol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1104/6556/files/92299689289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2125/4312/files/76327955253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0632/8985/files/zododot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4582/1338/files/23171859741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1149/7366/files/komoputevularaxuzuw.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_off00009ab1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9AB1 5240 bytes
SHA-256: f4a35f7711c13fc4d255dc93938638b1758028fcb04f42852625f59233924e13
font_01_sfnt_off0000ac49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC49 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 78e0154e8f002541beb1cf205d1404c4a62d3f12037ef88625313bcf569c800f