Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48e4933d17c8d07b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-09-10 05:45:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9dabaf4f30d1dacde7e5e759c5930b9c SHA-1: c84f1ceadd408eff2b82431dda0bab51d5dee128 SHA-256: 48e4933d17c8d07be8eb30fbebe638eca57ac93ce9454aaad401d1daa430e733
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic firings indicate this is likely a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links and the ML classifier's high confidence suggest a malicious intent to lure users to external sites.

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.me/wix?keyword=articles+with+geographical+names+rules+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sunsolutionsolar.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438260/683057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fifino.drvegetableinc.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302868/85ad8af17809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.giltnerlogistics.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871499/3295696.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/1/0430/8788/8535/files/81840537973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4241/4493/files/online_access_form_philhealth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8456/2084/files/kepapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5165/6102/files/plant_systematics_a_phylogenetic_approach_third_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a771bd_94b38ee460b6436490304825a9639d65.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/8014/9144/files/66172407649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0587/6123/files/internet_radio_software_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cancer.gov/coronavirusIn 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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006421.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6421 5652 bytes
SHA-256: ca0b6ba368413dad8fdde561336bbb873090e748b117ff03197efcd0db9b895e
font_01_sfnt_off00007740.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7740 10120 bytes
SHA-256: 6c1139594a6337a1b4dda4d0378ae7235c5fbdf4eb28b025995dad68d5e11f86

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