Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e74d7989a2e5b57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-23 13:33:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 55160223972a90a3023792bcf71fcc55 SHA-1: 0077ed2188142c6fa06a5d3d7e36986b5430e523 SHA-256: 2e74d7989a2e5b5726f0a5d6a9b602c9342214e1ae74df3670db8454ad2477b4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a primary URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'free english worksheets for 8 year olds' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to entice users to click through to malicious infrastructure. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.com/pify?keyword=free+english+worksheets+for+8+year+olds In PDF document text
    • http://files.wfyouth.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070866/fcc58.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/1/0437/5740/4309/files/bachmann_branchline_catalogue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6326/9789/files/classroom_rules_poster.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3826/7809/files/mozuforuwuxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1350/3133/files/83322227702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9945/4628/files/energias_renovables_introduccion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2378/5370/files/html_to_javascript_jsfiddle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2027/1259/files/wexezur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1219/4463/files/cambridge_checkpoint_math_book_1_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4332/2016/files/bibubegivelidimejijax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2729/8461/files/lixozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/7334/0320/files/akc_reunite_enrollment_transfer_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8654/4022/files/fluoroscopic_guided_hip_injection_cpt_code.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_off00005d99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D99 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 44e0b225b09c5ba5484d67b576a125e7c26e48c8cfc50df360fd9dab7dccbfc8
font_01_sfnt_off000070a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70A2 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 6e1ad1ca5ca07417d645e9cf58a6e86e606b3ddad7a0cedf20002e4e8aeb8007

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