Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd91ef123d47e34f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-09-18 07:02:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1987d10f70bd5aa993e23754c348bd4b SHA-1: 20ff4b0a3608c40fb318f7b676da19307f3c074c SHA-256: fd91ef123d47e34f0bd6ee073fc2a836bb5719bacebd902e8750a9df316c246e
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector, suggesting a phishing or redirection attempt. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Leeds primary school admissions 2020' and the malicious URL, indicating a lure. The presence of multiple embedded PDF links further supports the 'link farm' heuristic, designed to drive traffic to external sites. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a malicious redirection campaign.

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.
  • 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=leeds+primary+school+admissions+2020 In PDF document text
    • http://files.communityprojectsnapa.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483281/nexuwuxugot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nestmboston.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398177/vusogolexebozu-xivekizoxaxom-basisidexijum-gujas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.anglersarsenaltx.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871725/9375144.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://7f690653-2683-40db-9f01-c31f255e8f62.filesusr.com/ugd/3eed2b_590314d67281490e8f2ca728828d9d95.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e8fb7792-f7f6-412e-866b-db4a08af8cbc.filesusr.com/ugd/ce14f3_fe349f1a0aac40bfa34b369e88ac2d7a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c28fb291-7a9f-4b44-978e-8e7a36450a77.filesusr.com/ugd/035627_60b3acb8c6674d0494febe036978ba1f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ed93c9ee-52a0-4954-9a27-3c7f1b7110a9.filesusr.com/ugd/77941b_09d18ca56b9b499fafb05481058586e3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f2ec1542-b38f-403c-ad7b-ef7e30255500.filesusr.com/ugd/cafc24_7f8d9ee308114a40ab5d43e85451800c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e846de8e-0d54-4cfc-b0f7-492ccdff7172.filesusr.com/ugd/f91cf1_1f948289f7be46b68087b88fa688bc42.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ef661985-6abe-4cb9-8f96-80e1cd3f9607.filesusr.com/ugd/110ef3_b5ff4a62797944799798d875df6edb8a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c22c4194-b60e-4046-bbb5-9e91c83afe8d.filesusr.com/ugd/f08e01_f06a92e17dfe4641a8e76c782157ba12.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://90a6c943-744c-4c49-bbd6-7defa0ed0cea.filesusr.com/ugd/9b7d8a_dcbe220d1eb047169a4ee599d3a6e224.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0d7a40ec-4555-4518-be73-57b00df46b3f.filesusr.com/ugd/93c935_28aa7ab78be146ad993a8a84b9eba628.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off00005425.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5425 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 11c8d058b500a53e98f620805cc8699e6aabde8aa1f82b4d267752e7d51b0be2
font_01_sfnt_off0000661e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x661E 10224 bytes
SHA-256: e27ae602766c7426636ae46dc357fa1a6e41cef51f359202a6fb50b5022ac229
font_02_sfnt_off0000890e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x890E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f