Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f24fc91d145652a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-07-27 21:08:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 380caae687577f3bd5df749daf71f354 SHA-1: 8a2edad5314995645912c9ef408f35947d85d592 SHA-256: f24fc91d145652a5e378555dc52eb1c83225f9d14f19f49865c31ea9c3b6a539
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic indicating it's a malicious redirector link, pointing to a URL that is part of a known malicious infrastructure. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of an advance-fee scam lure, suggesting the document is designed to trick the user into believing they are accessing legitimate content, such as a discussion guide, while actually directing them to a malicious site. The file also contains a large number of embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify, which is indicative of a link farm used for SEO manipulation or to obscure the true destination.

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=respectable+sins+discussion+guide+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mintbeautyboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438228/2594854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theballstrikers.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856771/dogenavusegolabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.simonshotdogs.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409761/suroverezeluva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.zudane.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455283/3693178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sensefitnesscoaching.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776594/faef11.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/1/0428/4982/9023/files/53368072227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0407/3883/files/wunusadusirepaxawur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sesolofulazige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4597/6221/files/baranugurojigunipufaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8748/7395/files/72362259006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6696/4630/files/norapopofonetaduvepowajom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9064/1047/files/movogoxudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8869/0841/files/80168561638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5144/1563/files/lulepifawamapifekukobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/76685421079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9814/4932/files/wezonasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3170/7294/files/44910490972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2911/8627/files/vogaxakotor.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_off0000696e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x696E 5256 bytes
SHA-256: 50749625ec28939a903bb40d22da03ce126071e13b4218d322e175885afb7552
font_01_sfnt_off00007b63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B63 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 1aed8b26a19b36bc213ce0fed02199503dd850c87e0c8f46c6bcdd4afcefc079