Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f10d30562b897e30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

139.4 KB Created: 2020-08-02 17:20:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 19edd6b1be0c5a19c1e85b8cdffc7e0a SHA-1: be022f3517f956a23b54f84b91311901c84a0152 SHA-256: f10d30562b897e305c4e53c90b927d1b562fd9517a9a4db96b76841e95333474
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The embedded URL points to a redirector service, which is a common technique for distributing malware or conducting phishing campaigns. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL as the redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=the+crafting+dead+mod+1.+7.+10.
  • 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=the+crafting+dead+mod+1.+7.+10 In PDF document text
    • http://files.justinbarwick.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452922/madidugivojo-morosu-tulomobosidumog-tojubuxajalol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lindseyraisa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775854/pekatubojon_vamosabivob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fosteringtogethergc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398322/lizumekeloxopu_pufuxobuzuje.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/1/0434/7474/7558/files/42739779985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5620/9819/files/27715797235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7822/1973/files/vexibafeporigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4166/6710/files/74384122532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7245/3797/files/16059253859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9465/4632/files/mekasifamof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/18886859151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/58767089175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8851/9076/files/ropotebukibenenaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0151/1064/files/super_mario_64_wad.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001cbf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CBF0 5480 bytes
SHA-256: b5c1b59c2cc7334f1e734f3b72c84524962d6f50b5f9a3d8193f935c809ba0f2
font_01_sfnt_off0001de7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DE7C 13344 bytes
SHA-256: 3334fa52887d1cd329bbb97ef5ed065e355daa4c9445b6d1116ac78f3ea81d56
font_02_sfnt_off0002099a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2099A 16064 bytes
SHA-256: 6f41d85279102efce3c4bd26fddb767baf9b68a4f55e239fba9bedc2a2d3b953