Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14e2474df4696134…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-14 09:03:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b10ac34a691b4f31d4592f226876a234 SHA-1: 2eb35bb4baf9b6d8c9e34241fc9740f52c038b5f SHA-256: 14e2474df46961345a8b082adb5fa57d9e700f05f888be3b7460d7025b47dc73
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by an ML classifier and contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that points to a redirector, likely intended to lead the user to a phishing or malware distribution site. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility.

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/wb?keyword=signore%20ascolta%20puccini%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.marinegeosciences.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379622/1185489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.acjewelrycreations.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682204/7984864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kujaven.bayareabisexualnetwork.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776208/6c8fefa249c0c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5930/5880/files/tamuwiritataxaxupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6965/files/16910965031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5729/9097/files/39902412935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6251/6122/files/79339713061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1828/0357/files/allen_jee_main_test_series_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6876/7912/files/vepizukixivevado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1881/1552/files/pagupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0318/3258/files/77577162734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1621/4936/files/71365185703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5824/7320/files/39701949144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7275/6648/files/motion_picture_motion_pi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0017/4504/files/neruzufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3013/3406/files/24962208616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7105/2707/files/tomikikiner.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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000053d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53D1 5424 bytes
SHA-256: c91a4127b59354d556ae54322842173917996d10b9ddf01c4c518f94cbb6838a
font_01_sfnt_off0000663e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x663E 6068 bytes
SHA-256: 29a0936ec052c715e06d8d2ffb46aa47dd1a18fbb700168338c1638db89b05a1
font_02_sfnt_off000075ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75EE 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 48929cc47ef9725ece55d486fbd9c4de5ecd92f88f64973d39122d108e321adc