Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b8433b0e35dc181…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2020-08-19 01:51:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e0f73501c6bc0281746a6e1706d8ecb8 SHA-1: 726d5d6188380eed55edfdf6e9fe33f49d2905ac SHA-256: 2b8433b0e35dc1812b6a274818e6e48882abdf7dfe1d2179554734c51eafcc09
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'American gangster movies' and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The presence of advance-fee scam lures and malicious redirectors strongly suggests a phishing or scamming attempt.

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.ru/pify?keyword=american+gangster+movies In PDF document text
    • http://files.gillsaul.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776150/5684ea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.amy-owen.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384284/sumimomedu-zajebonuzeg-rasarit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanilol.readnis.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384244/4904891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.colligangolf.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815054/mexesuj_natamanijaj_zarowegosedo_vavetutomurizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fekerep.workingwonders4downs.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/doxedudebokesi.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/1/0430/8366/1461/files/13411828502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6276/9302/files/xojakerufotom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5652/0616/files/wow_classic_sungrass_farming_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0660/7012/files/86752491817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6056/0021/files/karejobuvupegijimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7047/9766/files/dinobejeruxagap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6304/0413/files/a_padam_tamil_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1017/0786/files/fevimorigila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6891/4838/files/xisogaduzarijawegob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4139/7656/files/xigodidigonugalobaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3672/8734/files/sociocultural_context.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8168/7459/files/common_core_math_workbook_grade_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5344/0414/files/enterprise_architect_13._5_user_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0687/0183/files/kozelesukoxajoviwudux.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_off0000e257.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE257 5136 bytes
SHA-256: debff76cd44c683bfc5701268e0a6c761341f58c02f115be81c4a1e6bfaeb5da
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B4 10788 bytes
SHA-256: d3d2bfbeba52bfbf63beae7e376919490ea2c8eb4ad4f5c9dc5ff8fd79416067