Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a9aea957e79c027…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.9 KB Created: 2020-07-15 17:35:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bf9d1eb13b3508d9f83a2660ca7fba83 SHA-1: 36a6fb104a724672a4e7e4dcbf5735527bcfb12b SHA-256: 0a9aea957e79c0275d0352192499340834d4d8c643b2ee197147a6cfe469b6e5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains numerous links to external PDF files, many of which are hosted on WordPress.com. A primary link redirects through 'ttraff.com', a known malicious redirector, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the link farm indicates a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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=colonisation+of+south+africa+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.assetskill.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740563/lebalezafemukigagosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.intensiveengagement.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437603/1511084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bookhivebeerclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969910/f65beae6b726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://sukimuweriva.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/18792336991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vifilajezuro.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/fanexaxerepalan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wenazedupome.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/23153508736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gopuzesi.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/16990132502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sojawoni.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/3313947488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sesuxegu.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/lodinojirobasebejaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wewokonor.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/19504901958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutuwuja.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/80226254400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/84574839703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3191/9765/files/33505404904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7315/8821/files/56221007755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0820/4701/files/26621480618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6989/8914/files/85768482107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5405/6092/files/xozokili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9515/4070/files/weloloru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7650/9080/files/fonorixova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2250/0518/files/84783800420.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a9e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA9E9 5028 bytes
SHA-256: 41fa74e2c3af0b518a5691f0d8c5b5bd074ca4e8741c6cdb3adf163c09d3707c
font_01_sfnt_off0000baf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAF0 10408 bytes
SHA-256: bd91f4c23906ec4bc59676b5a46f2aae38297b6d255a29e9901fc43c12495cd8