Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fdaecf74a7fc599…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.2 KB Created: 2020-09-19 10:09:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: aad54994c2f3024379c6a0e937c9749d SHA-1: 53f279cb7ac505ea61af204f33ea497216586a99 SHA-256: 2fdaecf74a7fc599c9fd55e1220ba1bc7fdc5f57343ad66d8add68c08f1e6431
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links, with one prominently leading to a redirector URL associated with malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to potentially harmful content. The presence of numerous PDF links further indicates a link farm strategy, common in SEO poisoning attacks.

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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.me/wix?keyword=funny+memes+coronavirus In PDF document text
    • http://nidimino.planninginblackandwhite.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437595/dedulemokorug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.chiroability.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637853/8febec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.choosehadley.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856279/0045bd2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.andilockemears.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637841/zevanuwumipoxozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezavebok.advocates12508.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871518/3062bf6aaa85.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cotoxguide.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710782/5442071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tepin.albertfpark.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775903/gosojikabaxebadedibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dixuz.thevillageyarnery.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740166/bamasazoporis_vanixirojusu_rijakore.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/1/0463/1278/4034/files/palabras_formales_para_un_ensayo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8611/1137/files/tamegisurozavikobokigutuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3640/0037/files/69659633916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://261cd96f-37d9-4a5f-9a0c-1d6b2bbf2a87.filesusr.com/ugd/2ac701_82cbe8862e49439bbe7bfbaecdca4697.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://22766daa-b01d-4690-a943-00660abd3326.filesusr.com/ugd/843280_ad33d0aa6f864642a0202111b40b7696.pdf?index=trueIn 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006491.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6491 3404 bytes
SHA-256: 6bc7aab3822012131d5e4028df6dfcd218542f632cf1bf92c227df8f8f9fbc22
font_01_sfnt_off000070be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70BE 5028 bytes
SHA-256: 8b1e6b34d84aa9b1fb1829ecd72fa1b350ae6ef826532cb1c84c853ca4c95071
font_02_sfnt_off000081ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81CA 1792 bytes
SHA-256: 1b46d5bc4fdbf0d6fe8c63cd43ee594182eadc69f4e4c2f28049411ad73c8202
font_03_sfnt_off00008aa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AA3 10784 bytes
SHA-256: de80728cc4f308dc78dfffd1cbb1f4fbd20a8468d3771839107e4329b66d6cf5