Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2d927c5aaaa145e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.0 KB Created: 2020-08-08 01:12:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2be697dca86c14344566f0d5c67d5c2d SHA-1: e981cda9effec8421e0a83cb3528c1d64fade5fb SHA-256: e2d927c5aaaa145e234148bd1875f9ace2166a2aadf0017b720f88085a380194
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 ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same suspicious URL found in the heuristics, suggesting the primary goal is to lure the user to this external resource. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of further execution chains.

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=three+phase+boost+pfc+converter+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.969theoasis.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437554/6494762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.studio25nh.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871721/kaxepotenipi_mavubafixigat_fapese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.romeprivatetransfers.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856108/74e11f899.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/44240048578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2514/5760/files/vepegubegufegiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gujogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/jedufejaselikaruratemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0346/9221/files/dekupuxovibupobun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5597/2501/files/cch_lu_file_b_ngc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9782/6207/files/will_would_shall_should_can_could_may_might.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5980/5350/files/bulivoxako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/97242885008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6888/3106/files/30388492162.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_off0000473f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x473F 5360 bytes
SHA-256: 521b31e81e07a0a41b8d37b2a27985278833322d0faaf8bff6522fc064feb9a6
font_01_sfnt_off0000596e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x596E 10224 bytes
SHA-256: a50ec39a091a207e1f758fdb3008d510151c4d64b25ce74ed6356687166ddc1a

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