Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2714f48b7694ade7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-02 08:59:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0fd4f6b1a65e806df402ccc15cff6673 SHA-1: a27249efdcf8e398a4c0dbde65dbdcd4f9598238 SHA-256: 2714f48b7694ade70d233a648b043077407cfc0bd80ec42e8844dbb2a64cf628
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link farm and a direct link to a known malicious redirector, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content or exploits. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and other PDF files, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious links.

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/pify?keyword=clip.+dj+free+download+mp3+songs In PDF document text
    • http://files.altoonaenglishclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379118/mokokejo-sefivafere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kenmauronmusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775257/4662637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.andrealimauro.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302871/200348d88d69387.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/1/0434/4584/6168/files/luropepolobilejazaxavidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7918/8118/files/photoshop_cs6_tutorials.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1618/3205/files/72896251341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6197/8023/files/73660595305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7099/7151/files/wuxixefevexasabozisipotam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1194/6134/files/83821769561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kemisavixazesunomezixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5575/2103/files/bowflex_xtreme_workouts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6788/1125/files/58059454266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5941/1094/files/25392698553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2648/9249/files/berowelaluvininuwar.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
🗂 Part of campaign: altoonaenglishclub.com 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000064ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64EE 5632 bytes
SHA-256: c9ec266ee64cfe102a54d5c663641f95ef4ed62e409e6f26c705a089feb36802
font_01_sfnt_off0000781f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x781F 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 4dd11291e3e3dfe765f6ddc1936499f353fbd2f1610a4e970d4467e30c6473f4