Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e01bba342315a0cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-09 01:51:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e38df79bc369a56533f7ae50be386509 SHA-1: 75409ef5cb40b59eeb016e1c3f16cb369f4b535f SHA-256: e01bba342315a0cdd31cf0ebfe5fab8f70693686d6ce75f7979f2e0485989d6c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'marketing plan' and the malicious URL. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests a link farm designed to lure users to potentially harmful sites.

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=marketing+plan+for+online+travel+agency+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gisimo.gethealthyinitiative.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437736/8bdee07ead1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.camralsolutions.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454172/gosalebobasiwasolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.borderdentalstudygroup.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131413905/tewut-faxeri-zusexawaguv-pesamofoguperet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bowerslab.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813966/vigakolaw-wisewapojofur-vitotasaji-detixedemilajep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.overheadcranesair.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637224/6603662.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/1/0433/5324/3816/files/absalom_absalom_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2873/4375/files/71932719248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8148/1884/files/fraktur_acetabulum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2862/7099/files/64529451902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7917/8142/files/yamaha_clavinova_repair_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5989/4689/files/puvalakegulalov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7299/2918/files/fuzesaremepiteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5876/4696/files/bopilesumiwiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/16949815227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4519/1841/files/84569822148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1806/6842/files/pevoxejuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1661/8145/files/wuvesopegutelonuduwepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/42539854631.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_off00006569.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6569 5376 bytes
SHA-256: 7ab4e3c6e37548a812571d8f4a322b5641405782f5b7b8a5bf51049e9b70c45c
font_01_sfnt_off000077eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77EB 10156 bytes
SHA-256: 0fc978bde4c8c3e22dc4f4c7b05d46bca47e2734fddc527ebb1eaff18a112e78