Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebe2d0cce425fc0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.7 KB Created: 2020-08-21 20:56:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3c752fcd5118359333c0f0cfc6901735 SHA-1: 5ceb41f6cab2333885b529afce723dbdc98191ad SHA-256: ebe2d0cce425fc0c82b6de19b46bc1c702840c57d26d82213e9cd349549c696f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body text, though partially corrupted, mentions 'Shoprite holdings ltd annual report 2019' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The heuristic firings confirm the presence of a malicious redirector link and a link farm within the PDF, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt.

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=shoprite+holdings+ltd+annual+report+2019 In PDF document text
    • http://tixonuva.sealionart.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856543/banaturula-rawakolepifu-pidamagazitila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takejive.ohioballroom.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607131/b0242f59.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cutiedokicakes.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775354/88396.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/1/0428/4959/9651/files/17008345611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9843/8820/files/happy_birthday_fonts_calligraphy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/41718344304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5698/0377/files/59557071204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2174/5822/files/centrale_sans_condensed_font.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7548/4313/files/vagisigukijebematifekoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6277/9295/files/tl494_buck_converter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7314/2935/files/organelos_celulares_no_membranosos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6780/8667/files/barter_agreement_form.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_off000053d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53D0 5808 bytes
SHA-256: 5a43df85af18664025c9a3a693be47682d7cd6b9eb0df54bca717a8d14a92d40
font_01_sfnt_off00006789.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6789 10152 bytes
SHA-256: 5aadf445636dcc80ea46a681147b3dba3d6bf28aadc5e3bd954b0d5a977771ee

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