Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e6adef91694899b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-08-08 11:52:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c0256730fbfffd4120f688219242aaee SHA-1: 8a87ccf7ac0080769f6ec2c3fffbaf936470e2eb SHA-256: 3e6adef91694899bab12cb1a36954fa1bbca3dc219cfc0b59d223be94dea3d3a
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'ibps clerk books pdf free download' and the malicious redirector URL, suggesting a lure for exam preparation materials. The presence of a 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates that the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass security scanning. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further stages of the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=ibps+clerk+books+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.localumass.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739060/lobopofosigek_jevajofe_sirovowewuban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.andieileenphotography.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695457/sexeser_winaxisivozev_pumibig_getese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ots-adventures.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740533/6754330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakufira.rare-prints.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710797/xomiza-bawijemoful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zazumijum.topsailpwds.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607131/0fdfda9.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/1/0434/9601/3990/files/20394660665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3771/2806/files/sistematika_makalah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0517/4179/files/criteria_for_judging_dance_contest.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5802/8959/files/12306908273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5832/3865/files/sidub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2465/4241/files/78648494826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0925/3282/files/wogemukovuzokiridete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5219/4202/files/atmega8535_datasheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3863/8241/files/nexadikonibelinanis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7643/5621/files/20600227644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8565/2375/files/25590431420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0633/4888/files/68249071875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6453/2900/files/24707064468.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
🗂 Part of campaign: andieileenphotography.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006926.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6926 5380 bytes
SHA-256: e2f00027301fc462d01222324f9adb06b49958b8cd0ccee91d42ea2a63cd3cbd
font_01_sfnt_off00007b8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B8C 10380 bytes
SHA-256: a6a8ef9af1d7c00d67860c05e186a99991d7715c0c7372a80148d1b272be91dd