Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 602eebfa5fdad331…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.7 KB Created: 2020-08-16 12:47:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1f2ef2a3e613d437c0f2a6a9bb33b517 SHA-1: e9728d1b3bff47878b5bc2eac8dbb126672775f8 SHA-256: 602eebfa5fdad331ee873a00bc61d8dbfddb1fbf7121662ed0927125bf386aff
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, identified by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to an online form and the redirector URL. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting PDFs, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content.

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=school+education+haryana+134a+online+form In PDF document text
    • http://files.theknitandstitchshoppe.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739616/300433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.parksvillerx.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775897/4118476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ceylonboutiquehotels.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384771/zaxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5755/2277/files/petetalukebopakugoduxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2556/1757/files/benefits_of_social_media_in_business.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4747/7667/files/biotecnika_times.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4161/1159/files/tafosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8812/4835/files/40186232905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3508/0342/files/vebafeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2718/5316/files/zetupukiwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/65294746239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9032/2342/files/zisanekisuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6367/0939/files/xodafofuzokusigufera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2987/0230/files/american_girl_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5152/1947/files/7733403646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6710/5687/files/19054018877.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://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006cb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CB0 5592 bytes
SHA-256: 317a5ba5c49ac803084c71d163a1c491912827a74cd243effbe8fcf16809b68e
font_01_sfnt_off00007f91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F91 3720 bytes
SHA-256: d5ecec3e822993868ba70e247019bcdb656a9fee58d620eb93bc70658e929280
font_02_sfnt_off00008af4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AF4 13248 bytes
SHA-256: 9ba3d0f7ee4ca5a3af9caccb54fa972cf69ede4a36a79432b2cd82b80afe05fe
font_03_sfnt_off0000b4b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4B7 9540 bytes
SHA-256: 9087185808b52d989e93d5260eeb306ba4f470ed8da5d35d5c63f165c7c7ca43