Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 035033a6f4cf5dca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.9 KB Created: 2020-08-20 18:02:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fdd398b05c3b4bdeec4726319d9c1c98 SHA-1: 9034f2efc4d4d95d1c8a7e98513018aba93b3407 SHA-256: 035033a6f4cf5dca1c241a15890e9a68c8880893ace8c47698496bd74de596ea
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a deceptive lure in its document body, prompting users to click a link disguised as a translation request. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=please+help+translate+vietnamese+to+english+answers', points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of an SEO link farm, containing numerous links to external PDF files, many of which are hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.cc/pify?keyword=please+help+translate+vietnamese+to+english+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.livelikelove.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437701/4410130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.folkestonechoralsociety.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874329/c431d87b8d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.betweenheavenandearth.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857650/xenere_sikarazas_fosafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2359/7725/files/comparing_strings_in_java.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/8436/2407/files/velocity_and_acceleration_problems.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7741/0720/files/21299793540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7913/1551/files/29013659394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4138/0769/files/16293508872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5559/3110/files/5787815739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5327/7603/files/la_vida_en_mexico_madame_calderon_dela_barca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2626/7816/files/34080978303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9269/5458/files/67288832927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4477/1739/files/84857033550.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://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000052f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x52F2 12928 bytes
SHA-256: b5244129e47941c8976d714cb04abf4129082a184ae9678f240016a5640218d4
font_01_sfnt_off00007d59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D59 5388 bytes
SHA-256: bb30fb6e6d6a80cb3ebf855a1d8073250cbee39092efd665c84092632daa13b3
font_02_sfnt_off00008f87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F87 8148 bytes
SHA-256: 8a71299ca004a780aabc2396836f153da167a37ddfc59179d5660e1cfa3057b5
font_03_sfnt_off0000a624.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA624 10024 bytes
SHA-256: 5372b09697fab6d7a68209bf92d701b66ee29b5cdcb221684d07ea2dd383d090
font_04_sfnt_off0000c8aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8AA 17036 bytes
SHA-256: 487b2dae17ea1786ff3facc80aea55bfa1b0058ddb2f26e1ad0152f81c909912