Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bcc41cad732f6ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-12 00:52:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cec3df1ca3040bf882b5936f19bf4600 SHA-1: 9763624bf37d97147b08b26308756212fede0797 SHA-256: 2bcc41cad732f6ff5e2d0c60679d7aa483dcefc3872f1ae85ab91851ce8447b2
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector infrastructure designed to obscure the final destination. The presence of a 'download button' lure and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to trick users into downloading further payloads. The document body itself is largely obfuscated but contains references to download links, reinforcing the malicious nature.

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.cc/pify?keyword=quantitative+aptitude+shortcuts+for+bank+exams+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://zitad.trailoflife.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383775/turedomibuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalas.newfoundlandclubofnsw.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776483/wulixawaruv-naraxipujij-wutebaxes-kipuxexepuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotevuder.the8thcount.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070382/banupezagodip.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/1/0433/6523/6886/files/48284793416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0428/1511/files/91534242843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6719/6063/files/2628846664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4456/8216/files/atmosfera_geografia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/believer_piano_sheet_music_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6105/1546/files/8n_ford_tractor_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2023/0564/files/madedimekaturuzogap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0659/0106/files/vanuruzonuwabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0778/2557/files/ncert_solutions_for_class_12_accountancy_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1335/7214/files/21426681116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/31082235151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7144/6939/files/22720458507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/78108387577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0649/1797/files/11860541666.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_off0000579c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x579C 5880 bytes
SHA-256: 09fbf5fe829e04d9f31d39e0269ac40e90c804fb2e2012fa58ea10b5650c469b
font_01_sfnt_off00006b7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B7E 2116 bytes
SHA-256: 3d710a4b121cc3492c3eb33a949758d423697a96dc6070b99fa40abea3aa876d
font_02_sfnt_off00007549.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7549 9984 bytes
SHA-256: f28a5acc5d44aba46a6e2cd7fda9ab8ffe19c56f3b12042938d15d3fd67463b2