Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48e1c70109b69e88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.6 KB Created: 2020-08-14 20:51:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6bdbd447b8b3dedd928c4258add66c05 SHA-1: 5fa415f2856592b45d29417440c8d2d73384f9d7 SHA-256: 48e1c70109b69e88e5fb54dbe184532b73f6778bf690ade007c2ca9d67a0dc8a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting an attempt to game search engine results for free PDF downloads. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=numerical%20analysis%2010th%20edition%20solutions%20manual%20pdf%20free', which likely serves as the initial lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other PDF links, reinforcing the SEO spam and potential phishing vector.

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/wb?keyword=numerical%20analysis%2010th%20edition%20solutions%20manual%20pdf%20free In PDF document text
    • http://files.genesysem.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454317/4246293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gisaw.houseofblackart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407424/af9c1a4576ab8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.roamsoshal.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303315/8930853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.beautifulbling4five.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681670/1923425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.motherwrenstudio.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303219/8164104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://testbankreaIn 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/1/0434/5459/5224/files/xikugikokexurew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9058/3464/files/8181583624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7692/0220/files/noxebal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4791/9516/files/types_of_food_and_beverage_service.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2991/4012/files/21251458478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2861/9168/files/wopimilenekaxepojem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7115/8949/files/78636476774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7089/7824/files/65374515401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6660/5209/files/jifuvivusugijuwepugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3920/3221/files/38802621293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9408/8611/files/binadixutawilenigufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6127/2995/files/fovuganifokebu.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a81e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA81E 5660 bytes
SHA-256: 95979ead9cb3c621af0f6bc568ea6477face3a202ee6b4079a5599fd7aa15e2c
font_01_sfnt_off0000bb3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB3C 12548 bytes
SHA-256: cfee6582055126beeb3d145ecdfee5778f9ec172b7cb62d8225c4fe9227c403b
font_02_sfnt_off0000e3f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3F9 17112 bytes
SHA-256: ff9749d49ad6eb345c639f89f2669f2e0aa8a74d75f4851abb2a30a5d9c98516