Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01686ba86d492553…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-08-08 17:28:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 08d708aa1afb06f1b5196735e7c7033e SHA-1: 5b9dc0e07b7ce92f44bd99650c50ce30d1e8ba67 SHA-256: 01686ba86d492553075ba3262eb461c8bbd180d7ee4748b1135641cbb168474b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of a link farm. One critical heuristic indicates a direct link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=alkoran+alkarim+pdf'. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites under the guise of providing free downloads.

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.com/pify?keyword=alkoran+alkarim+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tobobejun.karenfeiling.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398140/9203866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tomhumeartist.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164202/buzuboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.brittanymhiggins.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455722/vigunetutas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.artisan-trails.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483108/bimajaw.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/1/0432/5366/1858/files/14564620088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9925/1093/files/28369741824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2025/3344/files/zudikoninebamog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4351/1703/files/cdr_file_to_converter_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2512/1959/files/git_add_all_new_files.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4596/1383/files/29927346624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8402/1921/files/casio_g_shock_watch_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4647/8759/files/58261008078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8451/3429/files/tekexapakeledegubudaguni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6707/9830/files/32726587962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3277/2757/files/zetewufajif.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_off00004ed8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4ED8 5064 bytes
SHA-256: bb64a75b876a3259dda18b62113d657da328f7b9084c41d6c2d5d904200b7351
font_01_sfnt_off00005ffc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FFC 9508 bytes
SHA-256: 3829a94204269caf08e040ecf0c5a6481df43b59fc66c6e8ae676d958f456541