Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87e2842d71a04e43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB Created: 2020-08-09 06:21:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 819852987fc8a44dd6445dd236c231ec SHA-1: 38fa274dabc9b11dd3ef9937b5d7c3be0295556d SHA-256: 87e2842d71a04e434d962449e096bbdd7d136e07e8409c9c14a7049fe9872349
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service, which is indicative of a link farm or phishing lure. The document body and heuristics explicitly mention a lure for a 'solid principles c book pdf' and a 'free-download phishing' attempt. The critical heuristic 'SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE' indicates the document attempts to solicit sensitive recovery information, likely after the user is redirected to a malicious site. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest a phishing attack designed to harvest credentials or sensitive data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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=solid+principles+c+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jakalon.joelovesyou.de/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/viriro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riwofesi.toxique.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814017/1750014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.imitolab.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969960/sepotewuxuwub_pizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ralisajuv.beingwellagingwell.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813528/kotototojegapofanaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stjohn23rdministryofpresence.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739202/tufawidorekul.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/1/0428/8036/8796/files/kutanukalexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6779/3817/files/18679695660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0413/3525/files/black_magic_speed_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5425/1670/files/58507258082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9297/4499/files/osha_illumination_standards.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4843/5861/files/31362232367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/43396058945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8790/4411/files/20174420699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6079/6318/files/74409567496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6341/8784/files/4261437521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/99594865370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6489/2323/files/convert_to_word_free_download_windows_10.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_off00007904.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7904 5244 bytes
SHA-256: aa5bc65c3f344ae1ecd57f65b964562fe8a3948cbb43819b729127ee407178fb
font_01_sfnt_off00008ae4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AE4 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 27c5484ae32b4f68b153d805e338241dbe818fda7343ec2815630590f00bb4f0