Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0e5d18a2553e1c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.0 KB Created: 2020-08-09 05:58:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 55a4aae366387cffea50b09ea7de4f0b SHA-1: 36683a41dcdf85993a47335e8b991c1afc4739a4 SHA-256: b0e5d18a2553e1c7195f490bdf3a9dccdc5039e1fb2ae593e9d31e5d63799109
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'aptransco ae syllabus pdf' and the malicious URL. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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.ru/pify?keyword=aptransco+ae+syllabus+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.taikkun.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070733/rojafozorabufujop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kilsythcommunitychurch.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438464/13be6f9f1a3bd9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gifafev.kellytuckercreates.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/3852318.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/1/0433/4462/5813/files/niv_essentials_study_bible.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3410/8323/files/6369508089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6539/2804/files/nobunigagirazuzoker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1126/7990/files/xewikefisimob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9113/1554/files/funobomerariboruxewizokas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8706/9335/files/89118479664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3061/8020/files/village_business_ideas_in_tamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2458/7674/files/62671635842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4018/7303/files/deroxewilaberele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5108/2143/files/28329391293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5378/3957/files/42319808311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3137/8590/files/84228374916.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000071ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71EA 5380 bytes
SHA-256: a62e7494fa027c931bb10ce2b8bf1387ad5f40fa8862db7df88251536bc4b207
font_01_sfnt_off00008443.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8443 6760 bytes
SHA-256: 1beccf181cdabf531a881538c17b1ecf0c14c289dc403e954d4fcbe57dc728bf
font_02_sfnt_off000099e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99E5 10448 bytes
SHA-256: b55bc09f38d38b209fa09cc5a1a9fbff6c77cccdf5665a870a9f0dbc116a67be
font_03_sfnt_off0000bdb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDB2 16092 bytes
SHA-256: e9fe716c2abc985b12a899a49d5539e4e8be1b56d50c083b30290d85a2a7c848