Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10610a89ab48c813…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 21:42:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4baf4f9eca2abc3956cf08fe1ceff0d2 SHA-1: 29c7f499a50b5f645c6158e9208e9c1d4be11b30 SHA-256: 10610a89ab48c8130957e4e5c6438f66d0b177e16f512730ebcf05c202c06af2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF containing numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector URL (https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=tennessee+boat+bill+of+sale+pdf). This behavior is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, where the PDF acts as an initial lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious redirector and 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.cc/pify?keyword=tennessee+boat+bill+of+sale+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zitogesa.settimocieloretreat.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483371/4296487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vlavc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682335/1210313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.donorsmatterpdx.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775679/rurosadazugo.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/1/0437/5085/0714/files/antimicrobial_stewardship_doh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1093/1358/files/30647065563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8524/8165/files/webataxanukalogesupufuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4164/3928/files/48852121357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4590/3774/files/57868600700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9244/2264/files/7971578428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0375/6191/files/25864932567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3847/4397/files/36122850796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/38030937597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/96951977507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3354/2303/files/sojasofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5398/files/dulokevawabik.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_off00005e8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E8D 5028 bytes
SHA-256: e4034ca4f46bec4223ed154a47f17b039da2ded06b36431b89c7caa551d39d19
font_01_sfnt_off00006fb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FB0 10400 bytes
SHA-256: c9f09fb79b594970cd999b09c2b20001321d9bf288b9bff5c115526f997ec2d5