Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2a21cd9e1091a04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 05:02:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 471760e8c0f50311a7c43e3159f3fe0b SHA-1: 1b528a3e636d32986dd63da244ca001da130cc09 SHA-256: e2a21cd9e1091a0435c64924989da4b83a4f2633fbc828a7809ff2e7b2162acd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to known malicious redirectors or potentially malicious domains. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates a direct link to malicious infrastructure. The 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic suggests the document is designed to artificially inflate search engine rankings by linking to many external PDFs, likely as a distribution or redirection mechanism. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=glencoe+mathematics+algebra+2+pdf' is a primary indicator of malicious intent, likely serving as a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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=glencoe+mathematics+algebra+2+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xoroj.pobny.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871578/vonefedigudabema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelased.profi-solar.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637257/nuronoxuxuza_fevisudodizid_dolunoxoxego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roximex.stonegrooveband.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/470450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonelo.apwindowsuk.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637257/fizufovon-vowimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.petrilloskaratecampus.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163599/8748188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5840/5275/files/86641162255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5351/3880/files/masezitukobujepaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3514/7933/files/pmi_agile_certified_practitioner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1117/7639/files/citizenship_test_questions_and_answers_2019_audio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0737/7567/files/nuvil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1540/4702/files/the_well_educated_mind.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9875/7538/files/tebogapogufanepedox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9383/5432/files/woxugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6649/0006/files/fegavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8737/9094/files/acs_practice_exam_organic_chemistry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1682/9603/files/joomla_template_zip_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6113/3990/files/wii_games_wads.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayerIn 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000055c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55C1 5660 bytes
SHA-256: 7d5ccf6e11faee482f2ee76c1577ad3e1afc3878fcfe5917f7e6c1b9a3ec5fcb
font_01_sfnt_off000068c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68C7 10428 bytes
SHA-256: af1ef88ab7138d71ff9f29122818229af7f4f44633a05750abceb43095c7b444
font_02_sfnt_off00008c40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C40 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176