Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ada51e6ee0122ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.4 KB Created: 2020-08-11 03:26:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fce803d23cc00e86cae15f8318b9d28f SHA-1: 3cb47e1eb0652dfc15b9469e16d6ef1ae186b96a SHA-256: 0ada51e6ee0122eaadcde6c152f3d59c638c89db8f656f1d84bfae1f21a6ded4
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, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same redirector URL, suggesting an attempt to lure users into clicking it under the guise of a free download. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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=public+speaking+pdf+noun In PDF document text
    • http://dalifima.paulgoldberg.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398097/jutoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sebastian.boundlessgym.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384636/xokawizuge_fojodimefe_pimudaporipus_vuvagidupobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gopotoma.veggieandlovingit.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380042/0f7d38c6032a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7507/5225/files/acca_f6_finance_act_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0453/8272/9896/files/30_squat_challenge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9899/5864/files/suzezebuxogupumasuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6640/6552/files/70333787239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6052/6246/files/uniden_atlantis_250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/bupugepesosurokugodadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9544/8997/files/68343760605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2417/0664/files/wonujebafupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1629/8393/files/ornamental_horticulture_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5226/9717/files/limebiwixebixozupevero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2449/6286/files/70819254378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0532/0088/files/snow_white_hiho.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.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
🗂 Part of campaign: boundlessgym.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005eb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EB4 4856 bytes
SHA-256: 05f72db7a2e3f0e2ca0f75416f55d8b143e9f9a04383d389c2a5d37ebe4b6ec0
font_01_sfnt_off00006fc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FC0 5432 bytes
SHA-256: e2b311453984d4480789adda7d2f546a5943a6d283d825eddb34f4954704acf1
font_02_sfnt_off0000823b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x823B 3092 bytes
SHA-256: dbdbdc9f000217ac18e836b74a31e6a88ff54d79b16171f81de81c8abed4e4fa
font_03_sfnt_off00008e8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E8B 5168 bytes
SHA-256: 23450c80a4122e48588afd0466a210d510980759f57adc57c9dea1e23da460dd
font_04_sfnt_off00009f34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F34 14892 bytes
SHA-256: aa072b2774d99fa86ca32d9bb4c3ea3b84bfea2d2d12fc5bfe118d2d5ed1b075
font_05_sfnt_off0000cb21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB21 16688 bytes
SHA-256: d3697c2b737e05e18f104658fad9144f50a930b4833ff900da541ee5e2b266c0
font_06_sfnt_off0000e298.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE298 3620 bytes
SHA-256: a04de8a31369dc725d107c470775cff52ce94f0b23548a3964b72d5bedf5531a