Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc0754f97a843d3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.7 KB Created: 2020-08-09 10:40:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5c20270145569e46f4f11c9c4fc1c469 SHA-1: c40922a1c24e459bca7b47e038c86e96df9ab19d SHA-256: fc0754f97a843d3dc02134fb93577527db9852275be8221a4d087c4206ed3896
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. This suggests a link farm attack designed to lure users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or malware distribution. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains the malicious redirector URL, reinforcing this conclusion.

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=ccna+200+125+book+todd+lammle+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.school.stmatthewspokane.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302802/bepuwex_subota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.loisfaber.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776141/cb7151748b44b4f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nod-production.de/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776118/3864674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.georgemoye.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453406/vetanaxavotap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nexustherapies.ch/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740323/a5ede4026.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vunazazaxukatokezidabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8562/6520/files/19747775504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3448/3605/files/which_ps2_bios_to_use.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1778/1927/files/differential_equations_blanchard.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2398/1979/files/4573969098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4293/8784/files/20315433714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9114/9475/files/seda_alessandro_baricco_portugues.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5613/6341/files/mupugovasigodobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3728/5797/files/bomitivibumenedav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3670/2870/files/binary_2s_complement_calculator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3159/2102/files/vmware_14_pro_key.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_off00004eb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4EB7 5588 bytes
SHA-256: 091c2fed42872d86c83109a1cf3dbe198730d6eecfb77a49305a0daea6d5edd6
font_01_sfnt_off000061b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61B5 10144 bytes
SHA-256: 8c0f76929c693ff17282da9c59cd0d13906a3ba766f6bf27de294c4764877264

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