Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe2be1beed48823d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.6 KB Created: 2020-08-14 23:10:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 98c05a020cf71208bd5fdee004c46eb9 SHA-1: 441e40f78403e19273276978710569ab6e230426 SHA-256: fe2be1beed48823dd17d239c140d70e63f082919c44ecc3c9c4a9fcd7acf14d2
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Flipkart guess what answers' and a URL that matches the redirector heuristic. This indicates the document is designed to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=flipkart+guess+what+answers+today+4+december In PDF document text
    • http://xaxosoga.myardysslife.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410685/bukev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dipasuso.spiritualcoffee.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453540/2634151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.elizabethdelacruz.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378993/wixezeduziven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.civtechsolutions.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969655/22a4b38.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shandonpistolandrifleclub.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740281/06749d.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/1/0437/7611/4837/files/tobufuloda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7864/7957/files/after_livro_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6110/9155/files/bakomibipalezikogovopalif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5369/4626/files/78752591918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3848/1320/files/sources_of_carotenoids.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8588/9689/files/midumefamikenefaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1157/1865/files/west_s_business_law_12th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6001/0912/files/41993150264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2340/8032/files/68770546555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4355/1392/files/bogubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6296/0023/files/rozurowogutagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8523/4338/files/zimozexoweretu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8785/4749/files/xibenudad.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007294.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7294 5928 bytes
SHA-256: d173a2af84a7aa6b98570b8917ad7415916243b360ede312f5b50e8d2ef79b2d
font_01_sfnt_off000086b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86B0 10848 bytes
SHA-256: fc051c823c0cd52f8afe854002a3eefe0bb8538de88539d8933efea817acbcde
font_02_sfnt_off0000abbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xABBF 16164 bytes
SHA-256: c41fc46809d2260d2d1a821cef6bb00dae560fdbad380da94a93f29d012df54e