Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 023a2fb99e081283…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.8 KB Created: 2020-08-07 17:08:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 53ec6581756da9420452f4d02e751fdf SHA-1: 755434dd5ff479ac2538369dd7997a3982a8f6a6 SHA-256: 023a2fb99e08128353f247c7362f86132814a0283e5dfb8a425c42e1a794ca74
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content. 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=ubqari+magazine+april+2020+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.butsavageracing.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776175/wivawopuvil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.polarisportfolios.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071056/powamigolu-kewoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sgrhoboston.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871535/27cb8bffc691703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.acuartistry.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681415/2e53e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stevescustomcarpentry.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816041/gekovisetosaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0673/0144/files/65230128835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7396/1110/files/kesenuwamufopogeguwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4396/1494/files/71175243711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8094/9658/files/30144276289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5902/5822/files/54109403474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3204/2920/files/dasixux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/43778875991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/1457/3467/files/applied_linguistics_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5208/1053/files/10110771716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6280/3097/files/fm_21_76.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7754/9726/files/96818132292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6772/6232/files/ansiedad_y_depresion_durante_el_embarazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2965/9797/files/rimipozavederenunubeka.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005d07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D07 5764 bytes
SHA-256: 7d43bf0200db3e4ebbdf6e3003e506e9173573e87b971a0fd5f88becb0017a53
font_01_sfnt_off0000708d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x708D 2604 bytes
SHA-256: 5fd53e2058c4f5d98b70161d670f1e42036942552fef68ac845a5e47e2d7f715
font_02_sfnt_off00007bae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BAE 9896 bytes
SHA-256: e0308e9fdfd31f55a18559cbbd0e5e1807001234b7c6c4f6fa556e7042525b10
font_03_sfnt_off00009ddb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DDB 18104 bytes
SHA-256: 01319aa4ded363944cd41e84055cf5699ad285532c28174002c851fb664427dc