Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8bf241c921d31f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2020-08-16 00:42:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bc1c9228fb6e5f2730fec35f64c86877 SHA-1: 908f58453e08a7cac2d6d2b6e04802e3fe827b09 SHA-256: b8bf241c921d31f79bced358ec4ce5ea29ebc83b31934b904fe91d189f2b37c5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link and a link farm, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'banana plant information in marathi' and a URL that appears to be a redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector is likely a user being tricked into clicking the embedded malicious link.

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.cc/pify?keyword=banana+plant+information+in+marathi In PDF document text
    • http://kovuki.lucky13salon.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303035/d9a28ed17.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aedsa.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380052/d8720ede15ea.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/1/0433/5747/0872/files/gokupepudosuwigimun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9874/9608/files/physics_textbook_year_11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7950/7875/files/mukoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8260/3927/files/75588269814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1395/6006/files/57434471861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1709/9675/files/gunujewupoguxenilavap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6767/8618/files/98881482373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9159/0308/files/actionscript_3_game_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6304/0408/files/estimulacion_del_nervio_vago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/86562581376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0458/1272/files/atto_di_dolore_testo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5955/2155/files/what_is_a_pointer_in_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6730/2295/files/sistemas_economicos_capitalismo_y_socialismo.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_off0000d63f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD63F 5012 bytes
SHA-256: f69cfb3add24c5b8f85141823f70789471d5d520ff2767295f3c320fdd487ce7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e71b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE71B 10732 bytes
SHA-256: e196876136cd1167718f099ca82ce32b3e4af719aaa75715219ad63f3fb655ae

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