Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cfda49720065b0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB Created: 2020-08-07 06:45:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 86003dff33bb8a7684fc76b79d86b78b SHA-1: 286546358916add1362ef208e3f65378ce84c653 SHA-256: 2cfda49720065b0ffb0ee760ac88abe7e20df016b17271aac09d55acbe768a46
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'javascript tutorial point pdf download' and the malicious redirector URL. This suggests the PDF is designed as a lure to redirect users to potentially harmful content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=javascript+tutorial+point+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.cyrshandmade.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813616/6ae386d36480a10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hillcountryyoungmarines.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814397/xuletomuta-mabuworum-xawotirizotip-tegomezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.besedin.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437276/6071c2ec86.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tikodizexosuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0868/7269/files/kajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4881/0149/files/gapejibotuzoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6099/9830/files/43419769424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/puneson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/21884581804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8592/2466/files/24228721215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2418/7549/files/49039295579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1448/7190/files/bopedibabejunuposofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0197/0837/files/watch_the_avengers_online_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0780/2518/files/algorithmic_trading_basic_to_advanced_strategies.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_off00006e06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E06 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 2f6e2477ce1f128b03030bf6d86e0e1d965b75d20a3c1fb5331b4a82e77f517f
font_01_sfnt_off0000802e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x802E 15040 bytes
SHA-256: eb03b4bc5cb2e5807ba90804ccd24a7d34ac6ab5929ff728357d5c14a2924059