Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 face13d10747d32f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.2 KB Created: 2020-07-29 17:37:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 14283e59ca91b203a668452a544cfb43 SHA-1: 88f592d6477888b11c461ce88c127089788cee1f SHA-256: face13d10747d32fbe495e95c62807dffff120a8dc44d02d510e2ac47fb1819d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document appears to be a lure for a malicious download, disguised as a sports awards PDF. The presence of numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to distribute malware or phishing 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.cc/pify?keyword=sports+awards+2020+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.ciarawiegers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453989/sawawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.studioplumpiano.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383497/70178f76b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.royartist.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163533/fezibe-kitiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.honeysweetsugargliders.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455903/tolejejurefuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.humberantislave.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454106/1cca6.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/1/0429/1746/2182/files/67664835926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5398/files/sivagafasizeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3152/7575/files/navasikovutuxebiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/dedapefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6623/7852/files/wixaloro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1962/2808/files/jufajanekapusovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0485/3406/files/84656745429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7954/1671/files/mezoteziwakorurudilak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1684/6488/files/lurokajoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1830/5179/files/27353781593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9869/3022/files/lerunom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5497/9477/files/24374024618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2381/0203/files/28673959624.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007d7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D7F 5128 bytes
SHA-256: 646cac1f745ba950692162bf24109d6b7d0fa5d6be01f42676f616b3b5634ec8
font_01_sfnt_off00008efa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8EFA 14344 bytes
SHA-256: 33cc4a42024e76e61cc3139e0873af0bbef6e7dd15ef15e8fd7d3b5550b57d20

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