Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d8ebc361a3b3ac8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.8 KB Created: 2020-08-06 15:33:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 89f72fe52bfb689d349e7832786b7c34 SHA-1: 716d2522d57e9511dc2cfbd38f29acab206d9b51 SHA-256: 2d8ebc361a3b3ac858c741132a86d02f8b054749f72b7712e0d4faceb2e41fb6
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 identifying a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'bookmark template pdf free' and the malicious redirector URL. This suggests a social engineering attack aiming to lure users to malicious sites.

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=bookmark+template+pdf+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.saltwaterstivesbb.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070160/1795755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.westchesterswimconference.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813601/3a9850b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jupexijo.foxwineryllc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696111/10843b1.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/1/0428/0342/9535/files/satapagarugebakekukivupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8298/7173/files/mp3_host_direct_link.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3564/8409/files/50131719139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6173/0719/files/toriwiduwezegux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0921/1557/files/24391578258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8861/8396/files/zolomuzuvori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6271/2734/files/administrator_duties.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5264/6050/files/bijedafekuvedorevev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8135/8753/files/2481792642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1218/6531/files/rovozulup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0840/9250/files/lafekifafoxemevanuxinazam.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a6d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA6D5 5124 bytes
SHA-256: 454ded84b92257e7554f02d28f1129de7af1d12dfac2c7781e08b52c4e5cda7c
font_01_sfnt_off0000b82c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB82C 10120 bytes
SHA-256: 8504924c1173824a7fdc1241ad484c4a716b17625107d20f2cf0639cdd4ea44c

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