Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb24409ee8b32ec4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 16:25:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7faf4a04d451289e1692f3eacc078dd9 SHA-1: f553fb28c272556bba0f48ecd1d512116e7e4bbc SHA-256: eb24409ee8b32ec4e4da034cb01b98eefe4b1e9b314a86425cd3ccacacefbbd5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to 'cause and effect worksheets pdf grade 4'. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content or exploits.

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=cause+and+effect+worksheets+pdf+grade+4 In PDF document text
    • http://serap.pikevillecomiccon.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438008/gumozip-zukefu-wafuxupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.clevelandbrewshop.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681359/1244705.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/1/0432/3000/3358/files/37878631356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6847/9893/files/55833681772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7006/2754/files/ring_of_chest_vampirism.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7301/0845/files/nufipikepuwuwoxopitanuxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2338/2166/files/wodaretepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2629/1611/files/sensory_evaluation_of_beer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7476/5475/files/95692036548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2550/6208/files/42_constitutional_amendment_act.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9482/7415/files/98780118950.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_off00004ad2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4AD2 5532 bytes
SHA-256: 4ed6c9ff52d1894046d13f1ee537e1c00cb8458d15e83fc2c60900dbe9248fcc
font_01_sfnt_off00005db4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DB4 9932 bytes
SHA-256: 7df460df364728ec6609d6399790a92b88f740ac9b636480b7c1ddfdb37cf836

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