Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc2b0a4a304b1513…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.9 KB Created: 2020-08-07 19:38:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 450b204f497d09e201a5d8a335b1e821 SHA-1: 5b61f33daa6518e1a11e071ad3b670d935bbe054 SHA-256: fc2b0a4a304b1513e130f2e82b8b2c0e280d86364f0f1639246aa9e4cbd972ee
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=bodas+de+sangre+lorca+pdf', which is the primary indicator of malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing its role in the attack. The presence of numerous shopify.com links, some confirmed benign, others unknown, indicates an attempt to blend malicious links with legitimate-looking ones. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=bodas+de+sangre+lorca+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thewaldentwins.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406835/pujebuwogexakim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.washingtonpikeumc.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406749/ruxujejeribakozav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.superdiscountwigs.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857602/4897776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.brigitmccallum.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856476/2710047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.westernspringsbuilder.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606125/wogizi_zulanaruxav_wigep.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/1/0431/8560/2721/files/bapokudob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7222/5442/files/gojotiram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4276/5991/files/bubarogomobisowarasesof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/dawivuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8900/2653/files/47276604063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4021/9034/files/ruxinalate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2437/5194/files/nibimuwikixojinovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8149/6744/files/rorebepilotajidave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1430/6467/files/bakonomoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3797/2897/files/57020236566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8681/5139/files/doredolex.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_off00008af3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AF3 5372 bytes
SHA-256: 1e2596577884a519c1df3e611ef1f10dc28252fe20fa327e5089ba436791254f
font_01_sfnt_off00009d4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D4B 10944 bytes
SHA-256: c0b8b1b4db714ac0132e905b2c7b41b9d635d4f235cfefac8a965ba5f559b83c

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