Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13515bbc0af2094e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.3 KB Created: 2020-08-08 17:44:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 896442a46a62fcb3c7003307d1184759 SHA-1: 1c0d0da903c87a02f1b84c8f5c0c845a460fe233 SHA-256: 13515bbc0af2094ec784ecc0f9d29b7bf6754dd57c7981a38fcbd755b632907e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector infrastructure known for malicious activity. The document body and heuristics indicate a lure for a '2b mindset book pdf', suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of numerous external PDF links, including those to Shopify, further supports the SEO link farm tactic.

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/wb?keyword=2b%20mindset%20book%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.chickenheavenonearth.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740517/nuduwujudan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.epsaofficial.eu/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380107/8968213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fclcpreschool.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775180/zogaxazopapoxe.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/xoxolesusoziviro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/19227598733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3804/6365/files/audiencia_de_custodia_tcc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3920/3221/files/zelodugosokomitenepirew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0221/5074/files/bogoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8439/8246/files/dieta_gastroenteritis_fisterra.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1387/2548/files/49257142721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8535/7463/files/65138748943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5464/3877/files/wiludogisigifutusamuxuxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6577/7059/files/97867459914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3993/2064/files/31202645108.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_off0000783d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x783D 5088 bytes
SHA-256: 67d3f039ce7490b3548e594d0ce1227e108b57f9f795434b96a0a4a5ea3a9552
font_01_sfnt_off00008983.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8983 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 909f9a89801f2a9da6c60b43107573f6ce5a4f48146b029326e7fda61ae42c44