Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a242e4fa6e33fff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-04-17 17:18:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 613b8714ada0a95e165601d4eae1a57b SHA-1: 075512e5299d8e934a79086b4220ae217ffa19a1 SHA-256: 2a242e4fa6e33fffca75adce87f1a37c5927dcc54e10ce3f74c4aa55d754a82e
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to similarly structured URLs on different domains. This pattern is indicative of a link farm or SEO spam campaign, designed to drive traffic to various sites. The document body, though partially corrupted, mentions 'Ludwig's angina guidelines', suggesting a lure to entice users to click on the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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 http://suppy-taiwan.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130436431/130436431.html#ludwig%27+s+angina+guidelines PDF link annotation
    • http://joyzwish.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588343/6596489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anansiadventures.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476340/af2f08189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sebastianprinz.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380177/1325676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outdoornurseryschool.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164251/xujepugurorisitovem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulemareneesummerfield.net/uploads/1/3/0/5/130543333/5585417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jongerencollectief.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775776/betoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speechlessineurope.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410434/2f8f0123d8fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamesstockhorst.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775674/bc8a858e350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweetwatergalveston.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969707/0ee33d6de28c26a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yazzieestate.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814674/4021617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentalcrossroads.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606674/9982921.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006b8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B8E 8224 bytes
SHA-256: d8fccceeeceadca820bf5b1db78e46dcfc51c254bf73cd32f72eb9df2f17edef
font_01_sfnt_off00008b27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B27 16040 bytes
SHA-256: de9ab7d3f801febf349f8627b7aa0c20fcf05f39190c656d73ff63bae9e1d702