Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01e567f3db5b075b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-20 23:03:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2984a0e22829af496d63a5408e3427cb SHA-1: 72d83f4caa5bd52655b462dd0838a75021140357 SHA-256: 01e567f3db5b075be13ab374000176a28f806126feea6d5d09912af051d4c4d1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for a 'Vox chorus platform', and the presence of multiple PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to malicious sites. 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=vox+chorus+platform In PDF document text
    • http://files.campverdecommunitychurch.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406698/2767366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lunad.twooldmaresblanketservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/mokopebujonologaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.paulhamberger.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739524/jigesafedona.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/1/0440/1784/4382/files/pesojojinizizelawagevif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6974/1983/files/55950499373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4556/0219/files/83260429478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3993/1033/files/kesigiwonowinikezazogab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3665/5259/files/2216260895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/1404/9191/files/shakespearean_sonnet_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3309/1480/files/mavamavekopadoxabupusaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8121/1810/files/58756545218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0657/4238/files/jekedimibodefeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2589/0469/files/15252313685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0378/1015/files/rawolefajubozurujorimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4837/8274/files/makanuvedubade.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006252.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6252 4900 bytes
SHA-256: ab2ae0ddab974e3c1ac5185e0d32892b1ffad2e24a68f32665c89fd8f01ce09c
font_01_sfnt_off000072fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72FC 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 18f9f9e9a68963c7c86a2b3e4717c7a0f004afef154c5a576e147b5358c4c5dc
font_02_sfnt_off0000963a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x963A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3

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