Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed874fb33af2ce40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.0 KB Created: 2020-09-18 04:12:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bb74a014f2d5afa2120ff4932a88e116 SHA-1: 802cfcdd350ee73fa97885698a557f3e9686d1ee SHA-256: ed874fb33af2ce408fe46395c25c03d4d2b061f9e2045ad5e1b52e5c3ee9882d
224 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 malicious redirector link. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'biology answers' and includes the same malicious URLs. This suggests the document is designed to drive traffic to malicious sites, likely for SEO spam or phishing, rather than delivering a direct payload.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.link/wix?keyword=12.1+section+assessment+biology+answers In PDF document text
    • http://dusem.owenty.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712461/7041457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.christianmendozamusic.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741322/3492435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kojoziluv.opticalonlinestore.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969916/newasamojewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safupavuk.mary-jomurphy.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775411/tofug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nazup.magicaladventurestravelwithjennifer.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681342/d2ee8ea36e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://c7b01389-c04e-407c-9a5a-02d3ff161200.filesusr.com/ugd/daca0d_31acef0e5aab4170a9d41fa918dc398c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4ad65bef-42b5-4634-b027-8653d179962c.filesusr.com/ugd/d3758e_d8fb434ac2cf405f817400196185bb84.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://eaa80888-1ef4-4f7f-b358-f03099b23cba.filesusr.com/ugd/41f880_6beecb5781f24243894ee39fa2ee91cf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a5081ad3-1be8-431a-a2a4-44756163c258.filesusr.com/ugd/9edd50_b25fb4d53a6b42c5b23599ffecd17485.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://15d58ce7-da52-4ceb-9305-41a860fc0774.filesusr.com/ugd/e80f4c_2178a56db9504ed8b0983396bf889e92.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dbd3c9c0-900a-4830-9e8a-e2f526370b1e.filesusr.com/ugd/6f5f23_6afaaf19dbd34e149235ecb7f7b9a5ab.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b7b0f909-57dd-437c-a47e-9af685de9243.filesusr.com/ugd/d162e3_e49806621f424cd6b8fa8c55f6f2578e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0a0d5f93-49c5-4d67-8176-64133a3debb9.filesusr.com/ugd/e5a943_126c98cf202e46b3b58e00bbaad47d15.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5654/6463/files/sopewemutojajezigizumubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6341/8784/files/93460177731.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_off000046dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46DD 5576 bytes
SHA-256: c273b1db9b563789252fb8c2a5e974415b39b17960d33b4364de2a2f7359be31
font_01_sfnt_off000059e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59E1 9740 bytes
SHA-256: 40cbe1de427c81bd6cd4db78162ea3e630e224d619498dd4d371b4b7596ded60