Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23ebcd26a50a9167…

MALICIOUS

PDF

120.1 KB Created: 2020-08-10 12:05:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b8b1e581c03824c372c99bde52a566ec SHA-1: e1e617dec195644772b5e06cefe0fee0f8bd43ac SHA-256: 23ebcd26a50a91670a750ca84273abb63c01dc22e45ce7a72923ed45b524657c
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDFs hosted on various domains. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at `ttraff.cc`. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the same URL, suggesting a deliberate attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous links, including the malicious redirector, indicates a link farm or phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=cancionero+para+guitarra+pdf+rock+nacional In PDF document text
    • http://xogun.serbianheritageacademyofcanada.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776208/507e58109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mrslynchsclass.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740591/72121ae4148fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.goodteacherafc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681426/05f78f1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.winninggodsway.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740519/f223560a2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kakopanof.mackaycameragroup.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407089/sudivekekeres.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/1/0434/2376/0536/files/98160627465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5206/4155/files/jitemisolevonisevakeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8022/8757/files/52547158425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pifafesilepobusofamut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5717/6986/files/cub_cadet_1440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3579/5354/files/pakugedagakofufig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2571/0750/files/8359336082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0659/0104/files/malubapori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/53607129813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8558/6841/files/46577018388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1766/4674/files/mikowakegigafuvizebaxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2854/5693/files/gajepufigovafugut.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_off00018ab9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18AB9 5116 bytes
SHA-256: 2e334eb464563e2d13e07c951ceabfb30ffd3e9c5efff80177cbe6b8f80ca2cf
font_01_sfnt_off00019c34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19C34 18296 bytes
SHA-256: da0639d757d411608425b7b52c91a6bf3d51c1ae47680c8af391b8c0b1b302b0