Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47132c1519d04bf2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-24 07:15:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e32fba78b8ba0d6c68dc2e94c425f063 SHA-1: d44f14ab896b3349799e6142bf335319b543f2bd SHA-256: 47132c1519d04bf2cd36d3ef6a63eaa84e8ef8e94e77b5a5ba9a504e459a255a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a link farm. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=connaught+junior+school+bagshot+ofsted+report', points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily corrupted, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious redirection scheme.

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.cc/pify?keyword=connaught+junior+school+bagshot+ofsted+report In PDF document text
    • http://files.goldareaaglow.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969461/wipakororap-lukigamakop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.asqfortworth.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681836/7679024.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/1/0429/8955/1770/files/x360_usb_pro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4827/1000/files/aerial_lift_osha.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5969/2198/files/vuxorapis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7128/4135/files/biblia_version_reina_valera_1960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9336/7710/files/zigodad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6647/4139/files/winapuwogurusufifetogana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6888/3098/files/baixar_bncc_educao_infantil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5404/7138/files/91633649990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5747/0872/files/2640539397.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_off00005dec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DEC 5536 bytes
SHA-256: 0253b9ff09b3cc49d1acf8b16e53fa5736893a9b0813f887b2e0710ed3914700
font_01_sfnt_off000070b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70B3 15588 bytes
SHA-256: 606817d61678a2a9ac24ce3b4d812d4be0b5daf2c94d2dbeb37922887c09de5a