Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2fa826a7795eb50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.7 KB Created: 2020-08-05 04:58:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b1290f53ea62996458ac7d1313b52f34 SHA-1: 8c87ce7c7d3dfa391ddc353a6f9c472d41868bf6 SHA-256: e2fa826a7795eb5036e2367b8c2c5f6460c946d8c3a57bedd854fc32067a783e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a mass of external PDF links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content through a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=architecture+english+vocabulary+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.traceymaye.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070362/bidivuxutow-xijipu-pisovibaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wretchedmom.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871501/kakewokanul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ambassadorforthebluebirds.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969850/gajura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pilates-journey.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637606/paduririr_xudemolume.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/botezosural.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6364/0213/files/aurlien_gron_hands_on_machine_learning_with_scikit_learn_and_tensorflow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8991/1194/files/xivakixilamanevetiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6102/6719/files/xijukufijagetinabita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6749/7880/files/17489431091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0595/8565/files/ppap_manual_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2135/1587/files/bsc_zoology_notes_second_year.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1651/0873/files/babysitters_black_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9969/9866/files/63821247953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5743/0176/files/zarokarur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3792/5269/files/55865371477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7155/3189/files/68790158722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6694/9786/files/11455327287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2195/9325/files/pdf_file_reader_app_free_download.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_off00009f78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F78 5708 bytes
SHA-256: 96e45e148eb0063eab4d31bebcdea8bdeb381bc37b5e8cfba37f183dafed1a89
font_01_sfnt_off0000b2eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2EB 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 2bdd5de27a0b506cbd87794a0b8f3b4bef71fc281defd4102ede93fa58b0fee2