Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23efd9596e0b70b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.1 KB Created: 2020-08-08 15:09:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b40c831539952336f5d647418fd21430 SHA-1: d9a17a87a4e4e1d5b358bf4024c1241d4cfe3b4e SHA-256: 23efd9596e0b70b5b0ba4714b5449ea43c58fdb09cc7e8867aebfd6823c06cea
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a specific redirector URL that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'gmat official guide' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking. The presence of numerous external PDF links further indicates a link farm strategy, likely for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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.com/pify?keyword=gmat+official+guide+2020+bundle+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mosherministries.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969440/zutevaninada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jasminethai-destin.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437669/7324567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.zndaughtersdance.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069781/dc19de7df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lifestageusa.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814225/kufolitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.brickhousegc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379280/00069eb041.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kamunikizesow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9535/9641/files/fiwitazobovesasofipujufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6822/6725/files/actuators_and_sensors.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8367/7339/files/tozagokubumilopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0383/8615/files/fexivevuladujanig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2226/2178/files/87245451029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4379/0760/files/26440756727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7176/6690/files/60263798513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5406/9910/files/articulation_in_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/2923/6645/files/chemistry_notes_for_ssc_exam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9097/5647/files/vikarogoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8180/9558/files/ponidisojeguzuvezolase.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_off00006a2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A2A 5644 bytes
SHA-256: 699a36f0dc2d3440312eb5585716ad3f3fa0061c2d5ff853e0862e8112dc5c6b
font_01_sfnt_off00007d3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D3F 7148 bytes
SHA-256: 6f87802999bad1159350e13cd09174f3d3005c5f7903dbfc10649cd85e0449a2
font_02_sfnt_off000090a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90A3 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 6896712f15eece3624e1c381d5a4ab3dce29ed91339308b8bd636994a87632e1