Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00f65c0a53bfb14a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.4 KB Created: 2020-08-02 10:21:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 231e1e07e76b7146b38180c0ae2e5b5a SHA-1: 028cd15227f34d192a8165277a39a8fb5582a7ac SHA-256: 00f65c0a53bfb14aa0d060bf8e1e5c6604af0b49d6960b308200b30f355e553c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of an SEO link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the redirector URL and references to 'vw service manual pdf', suggesting a phishing lure.

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.cc/pify?keyword=vw+service+manual+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.missmarci.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857383/vuwub_bobuwegox_wemuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.elationcommunityvoices.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408798/pexojar_ketoluxuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.petdishweekly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164063/sinabib-reroruge-tadopimeroteve-luxamevedizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.catheymccrary.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969656/d9786897d8f8e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.visualgoo.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398406/8289045.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://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4093/0983/files/30034864976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6616/2341/files/35861465474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9744/6816/files/9212496650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4070/9527/files/20392203934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7190/5698/files/selipobenivinaximaxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8972/9438/files/fanuc_teach_pendant_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1459/4466/files/ravofivepevufewaxibeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8442/1022/files/50049636789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0645/2127/files/5793664958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5004/8420/files/xuwekirozikaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0298/6659/files/zekopomesubisex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7928/6428/files/gumedol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9965/9176/files/mikigotabe.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
🗂 Part of campaign: elationcommunityvoices.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000075a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75A8 5112 bytes
SHA-256: b60ca1b23fd48af7b2a41d9c979c5941495b641ffcfc1119d38318dd9f218fa4
font_01_sfnt_off000086fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86FA 10284 bytes
SHA-256: f464d0ff03608e39b8edb625766aef02d97571a6680cea2ae27c3cbc9f80e0a3
font_02_sfnt_off0000aa1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA1B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e