Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecbcb7cb9871683b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-11 00:44:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2e74ff248cde449511375144b2cd92ec SHA-1: 7821a24ecf9c88b3e1604ec8c32c157f8e46f0ab SHA-256: ecbcb7cb9871683b62597fa25c8f54316538edbdf9e265014e3b9ddba4fb8a40
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The document body and heuristics suggest a lure related to financial templates, aiming to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The presence of numerous external PDF links, as flagged by 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM', further indicates a malicious intent to distribute harmful content or engage in SEO abuse for malicious purposes. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic also points towards a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=3+year+cash+flow+projection+template+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lamarnhs.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607103/dodatojotokedit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.petcremationcare.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775431/famamaropomizid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thedinopark.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740415/6535022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.franklinvetclinic.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813851/3870e4.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/1/0432/3429/5966/files/atraumatic_restorative_treatment_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8565/2375/files/dave_east_height.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8797/0975/files/aviation_english_macmillan_teacher_s_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4211/1641/files/28570775201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5639/7464/files/16664765796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3902/2494/files/summer_waves_salt_water_system_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1636/3927/files/suzaxido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6209/9097/files/namuzep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3912/9751/files/wolemazaniwozima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8907/6117/files/kenomugorududujukevomejes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9430/1085/files/ciliated_protozoa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5271/9515/files/pravastatin_davis_drug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5905/9615/files/56010118781.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_off0000655b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x655B 5732 bytes
SHA-256: 9a2972abe21857057974137f142b30f1b6ef7c22bbeeb0c368c213949b352e42
font_01_sfnt_off000078c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78C6 10380 bytes
SHA-256: e385b1d7cc2d4279c4696b695287d0ee152b1780184a84c4e92041afb0d70826