Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24901823d3ea24e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-07-31 10:39:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f2afb174b6a0fe996f08d7e1c44f18d0 SHA-1: 20ea884fb3e9adf0804f12bb22ca2c62e142df98 SHA-256: 24901823d3ea24e8ad23d65e868c3a4ffc70dfcb6e07a9c9e5ce37eaa71092fe
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a 'Bosch car battery catalogue pdf'. It also features a mass external PDF link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the true malicious destination. The presence of a download button lure and a callback lure further supports a phishing or scamming intent. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=bosch+car+battery+catalogue+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.terrafuller.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775940/6064902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.laurawardauthor.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636792/vuseregose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lisleband.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437474/8732648.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/1/0431/8140/8420/files/28147311560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tufajotojitumawudawemir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8393/0527/files/gudoluzenetoxinasodowawed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1153/7053/files/wodadodiget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7749/3146/files/dopelibanezaveritataxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8768/1954/files/83064082718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4300/4322/files/pelokizamijevamagami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6352/5029/files/wajomolawukiwinexedefox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0020/9309/files/82817541600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xubeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4564/9574/files/59801372517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8981/3909/files/14539800426.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_off00006e84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E84 5436 bytes
SHA-256: 14f040297a2a1557a7bb3becb06cf1183b8de9e67bb9870941ce0435366e0156
font_01_sfnt_off00008120.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8120 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 09458c50789ee8998784d1eb04494d05b57c189d93f94e83781d63bfc6ede89e