Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01884536362b2198…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-11 14:10:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bd0284016126bc6be3b68a4fa6ad2b42 SHA-1: bf0b4eaee75e443648b43cdf0e4ac3278fe9655f SHA-256: 01884536362b2198fb88ed5aa8df3456efa0badf9a0471b4549051ec68f16ceb
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is known to host malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading potentially harmful files. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=cancionero+para+guitarra+pdf+rock In PDF document text
    • http://leruzuda.midatlanticbrassbandfestival.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775045/37b025591dc9173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dustinrippetoe.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637224/lesovavemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sprinkledco.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874510/fudevuxunuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.inthepinesboutique.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681861/losesulowepi_pesozamiwuxeles.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/1/0437/8034/1917/files/pioneer_eeq_mosfet_50wx4_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7441/2949/files/10410053309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3179/6634/files/vagivulopilinilozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/89647405972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3364/7525/files/zokogelogonopudibazexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6871/0309/files/composite_gun_gungeon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2492/5347/files/39258271266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5891/1649/files/breeding_for_important_biotic_and_abiotic_stresses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1897/6408/files/1984_niv_bible.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9993/9235/files/mobilcom_debitel_kndigung_vorlage_kostenlos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9923/5228/files/18929962594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5306/3063/files/gononi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4581/3413/files/vubetominuzobosuguxuxetam.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: dustinrippetoe.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006505.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6505 5080 bytes
SHA-256: b33ca516d6e02676c6f2f9a2d368efc1057d868ad0e03f7147664f708ce1f556
font_01_sfnt_off00007661.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7661 10384 bytes
SHA-256: f78cbf44c4279e07da04b09eb35a5eb344ac8db6002d9f05fad450b370b0aa2c