Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43e5a6579f2ef12a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.3 KB Created: 2020-07-28 00:15:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 75b369b9f29598c59097b656efef6bd8 SHA-1: 47d158d327d2c49bc1baa35e0efe48257225e51b SHA-256: 43e5a6579f2ef12abd5e47b207e8cb26a2ca5caf57a911af7f1841ed6b15722e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a PDF link farm. One of these links points to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool sometimes used to create SEO-optimized PDFs for link farms. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially harmful external sites.

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=formazione+cagliari+inter+2+giornata In PDF document text
    • http://files.gflight559.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164202/a6e9d86.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.atriumcorporatepark.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776743/xixufo-xojatowarepuvo-lozikimasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.crystalfletcher.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453484/3662320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thejohnroannut.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131412603/sarigumaweneja_zilefuxaloba_kebalekeziba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theothershoe.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453484/2497853.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/1/0429/9682/6261/files/21021841180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5621/7750/files/66342336941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0236/3045/files/muzofibobaluvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8615/1833/files/xegaxepevajubus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1219/3447/files/31912689408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/suxuteregejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5467/8687/files/fajawebel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4748/3557/files/55400645226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9901/2766/files/zalowizirufidadusosomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8933/8276/files/fevunukefew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0783/5303/files/xaxuberabedawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9444/2145/files/mawinadorosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9455/7347/files/32535839529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6453/8776/files/mazapuvabobopetuja.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_off00008b81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B81 4868 bytes
SHA-256: 64fd86e7c47f9b1a3ffd184deec42f2431b5f5a52dbc22a8fcb5f6abee1bafea
font_01_sfnt_off00009bed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BED 15028 bytes
SHA-256: d330ceb8e0ef5d7b10aa8ad394b4f56c09d4cec0df229a0d72b4110fe97d7bfd