Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26300823233bec7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-11 02:12:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 801a89b914fd2337bfa18ec8ab22a4d1 SHA-1: 6affaa89d9af9c9ec2a1eed6c04d4243e3688594 SHA-256: 26300823233bec7babb890b493d7b8d49a82f049c8e4fb99df6b221b218441f5
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a known malicious URL, disguised as a syllabus download. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=amu+b+tech+syllabus+2020+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://novufo.tanurhideboerne.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380213/17cb9a5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.r3dband.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775245/442a6d9dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bevingroup.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740323/4854237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thesetterfamily.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070604/xosil.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/1/0449/1522/8839/files/avinash_dixit_games_of_strategy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4323/9589/files/javascript_map_to_json.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3791/7333/files/acid_derivatives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5004/9446/files/american_girl_collecting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5204/7255/files/sifiluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8055/6452/files/learn_spanish_book_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9799/5941/files/bopatatubinibafebiwufep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8419/9574/files/chrome_cast_extension.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1541/2632/files/fonatawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/pastel_accounting_tutorials_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2798/8634/files/visotoselarupupude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4903/1592/files/88993059185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2037/6474/files/boxawanafegurusixo.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_off000065d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65D1 5896 bytes
SHA-256: ae1420e254787f11d37a42393a0c7fcd9f0aefa4684a0913ed5ddaa8054bec9e
font_01_sfnt_off000079e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79E0 14716 bytes
SHA-256: bb8ff777cc1dba7842dcae4a010b42a969d73eb6592ebda6c8f79719bf04e888