Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02a76971995061d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 04:12:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 94a52e28498f7afec5b98eb47ef3c398 SHA-1: 6a70be24d3e3b9cef636382cc6ef6aa2f36619a7 SHA-256: 02a76971995061d362643bd97dab075ae80e333b0c9be4f8d13b43cb1fe721d5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, masquerading as a "free download" for programming notes. It redirects users through a malicious redirector (ttraff.com) to a link farm, increasing the likelihood of users clicking on malicious or unwanted content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results for malicious purposes.

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=c+programming+notes+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.baldmanandhumans.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710797/9194127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wegukuloz.christianhartsough.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454065/tamuwowow-toxer-xivakizaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kerejiju.buespta.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437792/955347b681bbb.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/1/0429/5458/8316/files/tecnologias_emergentes_en_alimentos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7542/7735/files/49484058609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3253/4440/files/aprender_a_dibujar_superheroes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3257/5132/files/21840998665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6350/9141/files/66497623815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1538/8840/files/isolation_of_plant_pathogenic_bacteria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8604/4572/files/rozekisatovegawux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9423/7599/files/jevedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8765/8141/files/bisum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0705/7825/files/lafivozojebaxejarozapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4030/1478/files/28321438630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1137/5267/files/38387838960.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000069a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69A5 5356 bytes
SHA-256: 183afa31b22ae5395a5e2548959b319928fbab56c6894c4868ebc7c26b4d5126
font_01_sfnt_off00007bda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BDA 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 46692ec8263cead3b434f6b021ab9cc0e64ae3da622d9c3fa60fee9f77bf1f75
font_02_sfnt_off0000a022.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA022 16828 bytes
SHA-256: 8de793b06b64a3af4043fab5989a82f586877c93faf3df4ddeb26e4bda582bba