Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eaab282e85fbc205…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-17 00:58:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 623019dd4f39b2e2973b2472ef24194b SHA-1: b3447ded5dae3cddb40eb53fa5b242e467dc05e7 SHA-256: eaab282e85fbc2052318920f9705be52dd808857e04ce54019614822c5b1c600
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link that redirects to a known malicious domain, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to "Brazoria county tx police reports" and the URL itself, suggesting a lure. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of external links, further supporting a malicious intent to redirect users. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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.cc/pify?keyword=brazoria+county+tx+police+reports In PDF document text
    • http://files.oskie.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071157/muvekugifunefukumes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pegishaplace.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739163/5ac9ac.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/66691602327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8437/3406/files/baal_veer_ki_video_3gp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/0757/8009/files/abdul_kalam_speech_in_english_for_students.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4498/6262/files/advertising_media_planning_a_brand_management_approach.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2519/5427/files/pdf_calendar_template_november_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9843/7784/files/46408162235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2256/5032/files/99282303285.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006885.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6885 5080 bytes
SHA-256: 5f45b7bbb648ec3cf704fd5ef2991a8e24d92ecb429985d481abefad2167adac
font_01_sfnt_off000079ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79ED 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 310f58ca8cfac4050a576df3048dc89efdf68c28d19e97ff344a354fca394f6b
font_02_sfnt_off00009d7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D7D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3