Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e41115eab331715e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.8 KB Created: 2020-08-03 20:32:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6e9da6828373d57e4dd17d18546d874a SHA-1: b04b938fcc6cbd34256831c6a6fb0aa1abeeb093 SHA-256: e41115eab331715e81cec23b811c494370e17fd175eda8a1ad82d5ecee81d5ec
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The heuristic firings indicate this is a PDF link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. The presence of numerous external links, including one to a URL associated with a malicious redirector, suggests a campaign to distribute malware or phish users.

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=all+airlines+code+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jirakako.allthingsgrammar.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695663/bizimobinosid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.moombaparkps.vic.edu.au/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383514/4040691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.musicatmainstreet.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739839/davetuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.greenhaughfirstschool.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437376/tiwixij.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/1/0431/6571/2535/files/how_to_make_a_fake_virus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5911/6182/files/20321047228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2620/3302/files/91243763652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0118/3397/files/navitiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4842/6910/files/mozemowaxerifidafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7936/7845/files/vorol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6707/0877/files/nujuribitanaxubagozod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6143/5813/files/surezoxuvod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9391/6837/files/67717536383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6530/3455/files/wemazironurazumase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9145/2314/files/96196841448.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_off0000a0d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0D5 5140 bytes
SHA-256: e1cbbc71b3becb0751e1dd985a96f2838c3c56c2a064142fff428d081755fd58
font_01_sfnt_off0000b261.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB261 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 58ec6cae80d6ddbabbcbb787af2634c5f32985eb836776824fd2ee0f495a0ce9