Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a5b2dc18aaed71f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.9 KB Created: 2020-08-05 03:14:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bfe8a7be4958717a25c81053e738f06c SHA-1: a900b4860041670b718c9de7c801d222289c5543 SHA-256: 1a5b2dc18aaed71ff552446bb67ccedb6d474df1e27e88d74b756eb4470ff691
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be SEO-optimized book downloads. One critical heuristic indicates a malicious redirector link, specifically 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cambridge+english+for+engineering+download+pdf', which is the primary indicator of malicious intent. The document body text and embedded URLs reinforce the lure of downloading a PDF, likely to trick users into visiting the malicious redirector.

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=cambridge+english+for+engineering+download+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.horseshelpingpeople.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874067/vobovusavumikepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.atriumcorporatepark.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776743/xixufo-xojatowarepuvo-lozikimasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.adamjchong.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407921/ribudeko.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/49090326843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5070/2750/files/les_thanatonautes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4485/5195/files/88157133997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7983/5547/files/66312941630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6178/6262/files/a_survey_of_modern_algebra_by_birkhoff_and_maclane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7757/4551/files/bafujatuwulejojupagav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7431/3621/files/certification_of_trust.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wadilizesiwegokadokepub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5793/8581/files/kafimiwepilarija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6559/0438/files/tunidereguteponuvawava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1728/0408/files/40958777348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7152/7325/files/pajibopabome.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
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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000444c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x444C 5592 bytes
SHA-256: bb01578279f85392eff65e0e93b4f633fdb5d69cd9c7556c64ef04ffe962d00f
font_01_sfnt_off0000572b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x572B 9188 bytes
SHA-256: e7284f7f36deb10ec9becd2855c513598ce6bc3b686a26cfd453ca52e856b50c

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