Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5237f85c1fd97b6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-08-13 02:06:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4f174efa69c8be24b6a79d510c18564c SHA-1: f7117bbbf7bd87ffc40b87034bb24290be84b503 SHA-256: 5237f85c1fd97b6d80861a751455c1abe86c607c30fdb0ab22deda904a98ea45
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with one prominent link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes the text 'Sociology notes pdf in marathi' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The presence of numerous links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.com/pify?keyword=sociology+notes+pdf+in+marathi In PDF document text
    • http://files.theforest.co.in/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776485/futupitupetonesoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eastbayesl.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858661/dajudebap_kudoferakos_gexiralo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.zachwroberts.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302992/telagon-rofutofotas-gixibakusi-lenumixuwejaser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mountofoliveslutheranchurch.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380175/a3740fb63b83fa9.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/1/0439/2402/9608/files/16724646389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5193/2056/files/business_strategy_books_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0632/7959/files/jurassic_park_theme_guitar_tab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4931/2665/files/circle_of_fifths_guitar_explained.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8456/2084/files/84877780768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0212/5733/files/6932377875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8959/2473/files/advanced_probability_theory.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7430/4662/files/21039088392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9356/5342/files/66925140211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7103/6822/files/siroserabifamirofos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0829/4044/files/82908114841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7751/5941/files/jusovevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3301/0082/files/kesexojalekapimeb.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_off00007390.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7390 5776 bytes
SHA-256: 138e738a76b15b7a42b36f76928c3e9bd9560822890d2bbecde1d1b658f9b528
font_01_sfnt_off00008705.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8705 12028 bytes
SHA-256: fc7375f10344a4d3b4eda52c7630a503927da9ac7988b4ce873b61e9dd8e011c