Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 352f37e7a33270a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.0 KB Created: 2020-07-15 11:07:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 98b75f5c08d680d435cfbc329ef11db9 SHA-1: 466ba3d056b16acc962e304eff1e3a56c3e034ac SHA-256: 352f37e7a33270a537b5a5c9e69e2cf90a0120a9903baa761f70202a51649411
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources, a technique often used to obscure malicious intent or to create a link farm for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure (ttraff.com), suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to downloading PDFs, reinforcing the lure.

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/wb?keyword=animal%20physiology%20hill%20pdf%20download In PDF document text
    • http://files.lhsmediacenter.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164440/aac60f69.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.legallyours.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775834/siwozep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dynamicwellnesstherapy.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871414/6999769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.impulsestudioboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380687/palalasakoji.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/1/0428/7663/3247/files/pigosabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9628/6111/files/nuwulipekeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/takuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/98223768302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vijugogazoxo.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/vomakovedutopudirirawasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xakemidutugu.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/81437071188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vexopebugu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/bagajowogun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xosatige.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/8213373091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7219/2669/files/derimoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1482/3844/files/jebabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7086/6087/files/xisizedabapejik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2929/1427/files/9538458696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9073/9361/files/37061382529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wesuwalaloluxafim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0718/0954/files/zesuvelefebepopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9099/2549/files/69850641854.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_off00005a22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A22 5132 bytes
SHA-256: c0a200b38f03c9ca74e0304be5c61fd8259f04e2247bd80ad27e5a6a438e0f75
font_01_sfnt_off00006b6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B6A 9060 bytes
SHA-256: 62a2c584cad92e205483e1dd6cb7352212a17eb5f5d2809de5b3a5c13e1ae025