Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30a291e0b71b1744…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-23 02:05:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4bcf7ccd7a578760ab8ded3f6f2a06b5 SHA-1: 81cfca49fb71bb1d23fbc63eb26794f667c41fb4 SHA-256: 30a291e0b71b174422724f9825cd98cdda72c55e7ba83367a805d484ca75877d
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including a link to a known malicious redirector and a large number of links to external PDFs, suggesting a link farm. The document body explicitly mentions 'Adblock plus for android review' and contains a URL pointing to a redirector, aligning with a social engineering lure to install malicious content or redirect to a phishing site. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector indicates a probable attempt to distribute malware or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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=adblock+plus+for+android+review In PDF document text
    • http://mapajuxal.colorandlightpaintingworkshop.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738730/4936763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dupovo.spikemclarrity.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738948/muxujerimimenoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.naturescrossingstore.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407439/7355814.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/1/0433/2837/2904/files/metal_cutting_and_machine_tools_by_pakirappa_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/8750/8135/files/accounting_for_management_sk_bhattacharya.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8179/3698/files/fisioterapia_para_hernia_de_disco_lumbar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8491/4583/files/ielts_reading_passage_categorising_love_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/5609/7432/files/70645481249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/72707516801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9515/4069/files/zizivap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7732/1379/files/gefajifanavogafitimagula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8099/1388/files/41895831195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9502/9915/files/buninafaxofaxolonatedete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6755/5481/files/94979035643.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_off000071fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71FA 5496 bytes
SHA-256: 145e001b983c587e7b50b82e07518da2029d169dbb94f9a0c80afa5c0c7317bf
font_01_sfnt_off000084c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84C9 10980 bytes
SHA-256: d231909d8fa3531af17358eef142941e4b66a54a38bb6ef5c56507450964e216