Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 036ae29f7b26d874…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.6 KB Created: 2020-08-09 07:10:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 90931636f1d3a32f2a834f7fc1b9dbb9 SHA-1: 07e76e39dd92ce70f604404bc342e773e84b0b0c SHA-256: 036ae29f7b26d8746312e9261a169b129dbc1f61a789cf661383e72055302161
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to an SEO redirector, specifically 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=zhuyin+chart+pdf', which is flagged as malicious. This suggests the document is designed to lead users to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or to download further malware. The presence of many external PDF links further supports the SEO spam and redirection tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=zhuyin+chart+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ledefoto.thelevelupnetwork.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/883739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vavikolog.communicationculturehealth.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/8fd9211d665e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nubuvokaf.garycordingley.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969742/bezibagusewit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fakosusos.nlascouting.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437987/mokoj_xopaveduxa_kogabewodofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowepufa.newtotowncollective.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482975/5692349.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/1/0431/6564/7012/files/vorobilopulobobive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3161/6923/files/xiwozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2351/5294/files/dinexafemiboserikupiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2282/8198/files/67016601116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7664/9124/files/zikabetukep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8388/8808/files/33687287432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3861/3415/files/8143834476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5018/0514/files/pmdg_777_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1943/6185/files/32433913300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2819/3184/files/zulezijoxubapinidesogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0866/3456/files/82808892631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2326/9014/files/xotigofe.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_off0000d074.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD074 46296 bytes
SHA-256: 0f63cd547fae9ae049a30947f56bb7b9396001210825a7cc0b5ec08c2887da93
font_01_sfnt_off00015e25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E25 5092 bytes
SHA-256: 381eb20342ee02a5d92a7c420c6726e6b11db55d6495a6dfb1ff10eee65fc454
font_02_sfnt_off00016f83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F83 22568 bytes
SHA-256: 8fa3852c6f2f7c66ce9d2d37c6dd19751799b4b7e067b04f2ca4b31257452dcc
font_03_sfnt_off0001afaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AFAA 16116 bytes
SHA-256: 757edbe9ca696dc752e8794cc2fab55b744a24b197aba41abea0c8f583a0f3ca