Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b7c7cba163f97d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-25 16:14:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 40d9b93e04f675d2fad5798c52593d84 SHA-1: 7c7b23eca700a753a24ff5435a4b3fa1c6e4252d SHA-256: 2b7c7cba163f97d025a4180a673e02be6477da5fbbaada0b5f8250b607741565
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains text related to a 'Wisconsin warranty deed form' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure for phishing or malware. The presence of numerous PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the malicious destination.

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=wisconsin+warranty+deed+form In PDF document text
    • http://files.adamsmetaldetectorsuk.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856539/paxiwesezopip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.onlineradioschool.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682974/1070f3a793.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/1/0428/4301/3287/files/92289883984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7342/8890/files/xujivumobokitadipobogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4141/4552/files/blending_words_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9525/2374/files/13375277719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4836/9319/files/82702779768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6191/1458/files/calorie_counter_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7518/2485/files/bijavakulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1715/0368/files/84708610822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1206/3391/files/97173489606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8099/1395/files/grammar_worksheets_for_5th_graders.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7870/4549/files/surah_waqiah_al_kalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5959/2859/files/63950242081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9240/1573/files/96408859821.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_off00005ee2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EE2 5340 bytes
SHA-256: 70481e33eab46a13e7342d85645f8946d4a99730ea01ec37bc83b0087ec6676f
font_01_sfnt_off00007106.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7106 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 1e94b996ff1a03efddbbe9ea155311fafdc431916d16bf1b37c2689f70ecbb3c