Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b742f6520c36e613…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 15:44:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a0eec1b45def0f8a1c38d79f9c7e98d0 SHA-1: 4b693bb6a6b3bf16848be3e43d366c73d5000b1f SHA-256: b742f6520c36e61386d0f6ab8a96f969cc716ae51069b9686cbdd1d049912ac7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a redirector URL, which is a common tactic for delivering malicious payloads or phishing pages. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'notification email template laravel' and the malicious redirector URL itself. The presence of numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially leverage legitimate platforms for hosting. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution behavior.

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=notification+email+template+laravel In PDF document text
    • http://files.latinmasshv.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380279/fa7e65a85f7eec.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/1/0429/2483/4975/files/mujotedolotur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5789/7882/files/xugimezujopofutifugomafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6546/5245/files/belajar_coding_dasar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7661/6341/files/69033209557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2534/9283/files/visusibezekefuvavusibip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7230/4805/files/discord_channel_topic.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1593/7948/files/zatid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2218/6656/files/texas_reality_check.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0456/8258/9855/files/mepisoxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9186/1410/files/75057438833.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006e18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E18 5012 bytes
SHA-256: fb2ccd80c07a074e091b285e091b6536a776a78ba9eeb289194174f7f20e3b73
font_01_sfnt_off00007f16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F16 15284 bytes
SHA-256: 163af41be30ed1379d55edbda216a1a2e2be7a66673733b2e1de1a5dfb7fe46e

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