Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b5e9e50b764244d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

169.1 KB Created: 2020-07-27 20:46:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5564495ac5cd0e02ca624f2aa107939c SHA-1: 9126c1eb6d05be8f687976a65fc2863572050914 SHA-256: 2b5e9e50b764244d0803cf30ce10e67fd3be8f044800cd7013983e4834e84dff
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link and a social engineering lure to install a browser extension or update. The embedded URL leads to a known malicious redirector, suggesting an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to performance appraisals, likely used as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.
  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=performance+appraisal+phrases+examples+integrity In PDF document text
    • http://files.drinktexas.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637881/9216615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.patchworkstories.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384300/61943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kymgeorgeartdolls.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738565/sirigaxi_vikiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sonnambula.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739742/zivutidegini-nobotafebeki-wakedenuzexobog-dodal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.piperdavisbaseball.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695887/fuvofini.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/1/0430/7058/7029/files/fovobemivan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7950/7870/files/noguvusagoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2004/1886/files/puletapuvofuduwozuzizupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6083/0116/files/zajotukofil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4487/1063/files/someraduzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/matam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7216/7841/files/xetodovewivot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9255/7462/files/gogowapetemilemodesefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5588/3175/files/31535466078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4392/8726/files/8028996159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8315/3056/files/62594602941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/18396470220.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00024af3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x24AF3 5388 bytes
SHA-256: 9c1e0ea7f246fb6dd063d330d80d197486c40fedbda3a8a8c3f0dd17f3b76bb7
font_01_sfnt_off00025d14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x25D14 10088 bytes
SHA-256: b715f7ddfe7e1718e9c3848d1e0beb473860fe4aa43c4359cf3afc6cb5cadb98
font_02_sfnt_off00027fc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x27FC0 16348 bytes
SHA-256: 4d0700c2bed8ae31e296ea143d862b5f4c90f99d2dd4e3a41f3daee297692574