Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e848204923afdb9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-14 02:37:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4d933476e2b70063ec6bb0d99d75deba SHA-1: 3bfa9a116216d8a8f89d4d091726e82ffe6018d5 SHA-256: e848204923afdb9d7ff7203e1e44534586abd8f4b339b92013c25de797058e7b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to a redirector service. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Osmosis in a plant cell lab answers' and includes the malicious URL. This suggests a social engineering attack where the user is tricked into clicking a link under the guise of finding answers to an academic exercise, leading them to a malicious 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=osmosis+in+a+plant+cell+lab+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.constructionandtreeservices.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682627/bedawumifulafa_fasuk_wodijunifolazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rojegebok.rareearthsmiths.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398020/tenotowiluxug_luranetela_kibugijegax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rusticridgelabs.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681028/6917331437ba6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lidetectingresource.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856516/dujimezujesitipen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.casewatson.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437087/potiv_gujimutipata_medexi_gaferaf.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/1/0440/6224/5029/files/apollo_fire_alarm_panel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7076/6750/files/nagugezumakozetafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8820/6238/files/kata_kata_luck.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4691/0624/files/87981356796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5109/0077/files/gedotoxudusukotafipemene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9856/1948/files/brusters_menu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3431/1845/files/61303888641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/5387/0232/files/napoleon_bonaparte_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0276/4184/files/pinofekefomefevagonulok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9429/5203/files/sifts_head_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2931/4206/files/33243581475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1449/6161/files/present_simple_present_continuous_exercises_perfect_english_grammar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/86526592296.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_off00007306.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7306 5336 bytes
SHA-256: b399006ec372311691186deb6dab4c06e988878946dea90861ecbb343ce54627
font_01_sfnt_off0000851d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x851D 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 3f6ce5d078776b751d583a21f4002b323d4f770e7e5520a8dd21a101a6d8107e