Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14a53af06b16f57c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.9 KB Created: 2020-09-01 05:22:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2d862bf1c0a8ec54604aab8a7807534b SHA-1: 42ab48e65204f85d5ef65f5c9823dbf77451504e SHA-256: 14a53af06b16f57cb6e10962745a98a736194fd4d778dc5daebd208d4d3abd72
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and SEO link farming, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the malicious redirector. This suggests the PDF is designed to trick users into clicking a link that leads to a malicious site, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

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.ru/wix?keyword=certyfikat+kompetencji+zawodowych+ksi%25C4%2585%25C5%25BCka+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_25905f369a5344ee9f6c6aa81377c426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c1108c_f7fbd84274704dc19e4114d9c86cbdbf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97aff7_b3c8f9b4fea84024b769a971d103c991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1619/2153/files/38021833731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/1289/1297/files/comprehension_exercises_for_class_7_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1434/9215/files/25435628076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1787/1255/files/best_mods_for_skyrim_special_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6103/5686/files/91871441163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0174/1463/files/soporozadawadelakozeremu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8764/3302/files/descargar_pokemon_x_para_pc_sin_emul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/0939/2030/files/health_the_basics_rebecca_donatelle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/94662163826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8976/5276/files/45978652033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4dcae3f53e624f2aa444ceba4c10c12f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d5415a_f22509e16e864531bf430f4948087283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/badafb_ef32084299dc4648a179fb98e0cec1a6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b2905813d1b94269b7e4016a43023e5c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a8ca0f_04c0260ecc234bbaa19087ac373bcae4.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000082c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82C3 3184 bytes
SHA-256: fad79edd0e0d96a44e07fd76711b5aed6323b755887efd5a46cffe69a89b0ae1
font_01_sfnt_off00008e19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E19 5896 bytes
SHA-256: 67fe84c3dfa2340197e79447b459b10778fac509927bf1d72d150d9a43db344c
font_02_sfnt_off0000a177.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA177 15868 bytes
SHA-256: d2f167834ddb542be5b58047a4340e7123f8ccecd08a3ca3fd1a6e2e09dc050e
font_03_sfnt_off0000d0d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0D6 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e