Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a3b22368bfc30a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.9 KB Created: 2020-08-06 23:41:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a2a44bf7c3d70f920bdf4c0ae7a00745 SHA-1: b67bfeac39124c340c6e2b683c4362cc7e283439 SHA-256: 0a3b22368bfc30a91230ed935c9b0006b285f268066ea14e8bda440dcf39a204
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is known to host malicious content. The document body itself contains obfuscated text and URLs, suggesting an attempt to disguise the malicious intent. The primary goal appears to be directing users to potentially harmful external sites through a link farm.

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=saxophone+bebop+scales+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.indianaliteracy.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164520/gakizunexib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.soulop.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738806/guzujaburabifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vtclinic.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856112/a36ed283.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/1/0434/0023/3112/files/dowurukenafabom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tobilefoseparavako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5344/0414/files/43839115594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1308/7142/files/67833674329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3258/9989/files/fokirugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0145/4500/files/15017209429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8388/8808/files/niwixadixebiwojelubakawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8233/3856/files/49075099500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/34292265756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5282/5750/files/barmetro_de_las_amricas_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7160/2855/files/garmin_nuvi_40lm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2175/4787/files/gunanebif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/61066914906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0642/7299/files/89037031783.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_off000077ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77ED 5460 bytes
SHA-256: 21034a98e7e34e5f9a4708c002f66b29e90abf1397278113bd713cc43c520d77
font_01_sfnt_off00008a79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A79 10132 bytes
SHA-256: 89b9ee22b0577ff10e8fa959962fdd068329e17fe78e5b91f07f08cd6c03ced4
font_02_sfnt_off0000ad5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD5D 16120 bytes
SHA-256: fb7b45e24c28c4473d0ca1c6410c593992d9a809009f9c41b5ae32c9142507dd