Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba275a0dcaf4d4a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-13 19:53:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 98362c1e4cdee35ec720a91a80c8db11 SHA-1: 2e47bc819a6a19fbcc383bf7d43283b6fbf85f45 SHA-256: ba275a0dcaf4d4a6f403bf752c09d37e2bd33c7cbad40819fdafa7c35f837d67
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources, classifying it as a link farm. One of the primary links redirects to a known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'punctuation worksheets for 1st grade' and the malicious redirector URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking through to potentially harmful 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.ru/wb?keyword=punctuation%20worksheets%20for%201st%20grade In PDF document text
    • http://files.266michiganroad.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680908/xujolen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worebakef.hursthistory.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/fuvopanevitiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cmsreads.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397996/2830084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jezodipir.illinkgraphicprintstudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874284/fasojegoxevuv.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/1/0434/7143/7984/files/gamomebirivizogugimiredej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3728/6812/files/time_machine_band.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4525/6344/files/99177417286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0763/0747/files/balanza_de_pagos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6808/7701/files/bowditch_vol_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8788/8535/files/all_you_zombies_heinlein.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8844/5604/files/sositafuxijezelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7659/1509/files/14885505604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9168/0673/files/helicobacter_pylori_tratamiento_natural.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6241/1935/files/pomamowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8609/4248/files/17825205968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0553/4620/files/27989763271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8166/1600/files/site_reliability_engineering_google.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9866/9220/files/71470949005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7728/0671/files/carbohydrates_nios.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_off00005623.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5623 5460 bytes
SHA-256: 45afa12bb8d27099058f254ed2b247b7a1d306da4ca78440a23cda6d99a41df2
font_01_sfnt_off000068c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68C3 11140 bytes
SHA-256: cb7341ef118c6d8b2496329c8745250f9ffc3223bec407832470c6ef76c0a199