Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b8b43686eea1032…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-08-10 05:59:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 38255f4d8871c2e148d305d860a78e4b SHA-1: bd1efc312ff33219cd10cda26c2d07ea46531061 SHA-256: 2b8b43686eea103272f88bb270b4a1558c60b0ada96016b419acbcedb85f9dd4
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm designed for SEO manipulation, specifically targeting 'free download' keywords. The embedded document body text also contains the primary redirector URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading content via a malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern points to a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.com/pify?keyword=digital+electronics+books+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.rubypurplecreations.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483491/zuxofadugofu_xamezojuxeso_zazupejofitule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sweetiescateringnc.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712080/6172744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jebam.cateringbyalma.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873851/givikum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.koldenpianolessons.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968933/3956533.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/1/0439/5152/1947/files/3267034626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9825/1165/files/lodelakixasuruxagaxonope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0881/0398/files/converter_to_word_offline_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3393/4496/files/luzogusamijava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4211/0625/files/kisijipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5386/6408/files/isospora_belli_morphology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mujunevuduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/rinajimakonewob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7055/3238/files/fugegasozepalosuxiralu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5848/7703/files/mufari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8506/9477/files/73394477952.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000060bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60BB 5620 bytes
SHA-256: 088323526b63f4adf93a627d794f7576586cb196c2b24b15470b7aad0079db2b
font_01_sfnt_off000073f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73F6 2116 bytes
SHA-256: 2d35fe1b112251630f6c3e185fb4bf58c6327cea99f60afab3ca0473214b5b30
font_02_sfnt_off00007dc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DC1 9972 bytes
SHA-256: 8ca79cf9a1eef480552a634205d5f6538907f7976c1c1937bfab484650bd18a5