Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51c6e85395877e3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.0 KB Created: 2020-08-18 23:20:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0d8b302013716b078054327572e6af12 SHA-1: e930add50de8c06ec65a92c828be6eebf9f4bf2f SHA-256: 51c6e85395877e3a093b233e77828b9a78e984cd798eea4eb239db4612993189
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link and a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm or redirection tactic. The presence of a 'download button' lure and a 'browser extension installation lure' indicates a social engineering attempt to trick the user into clicking the malicious link. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.cc, which is known for redirecting to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=bilibili+video+er+firefox In PDF document text
    • http://files.fourstatesymphonicwinds.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437249/divozes.pdfIn 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://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3490/1660/files/amplitude_shift_keying_using_matlab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6646/6216/files/noradaninagevilivexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7936/6811/files/cantares_mexicanos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5491/6003/files/aplasia_medular_tratamiento.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7080/7461/files/jenkintown_pa_police_reports.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1186/4738/files/schengen_visa_application_form_belgium.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8511/0177/files/romamesuxelufidikusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5047/5413/files/fowekakanavifesaduterafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7547/7407/files/juzubaxasul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4374/1083/files/xovegebiwukenupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3019/9966/files/lobomega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5731/4983/files/23058595546.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006738.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6738 6832 bytes
SHA-256: 3c1499defb01d70bb2cd1a99f2187e9b55a53790071b73e60527571891b9895c
font_01_sfnt_off00007857.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7857 4368 bytes
SHA-256: 355ab153bf456b7161bb8dbeba476e40912120023119b1c2a3f03542a4f06dc4
font_02_sfnt_off000087b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87B1 4432 bytes
SHA-256: 7ccf016a619d4fb8833491ab6dee1716b784cd647c00ca59d72f71eb9a44ccb6
font_03_sfnt_off000096c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96C4 1936 bytes
SHA-256: 84daf345e21b08075a6e329eeacb0a13a0447ddcc3efc64e98a9a4ab9c6a9d9d
font_04_sfnt_off0000a005.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA005 10564 bytes
SHA-256: f0f4d9558aed14425c514edbe237aac969bfbe9bbbcac213e4dbac91eb6666df
font_05_sfnt_off0000c464.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC464 16296 bytes
SHA-256: 5663d8578250f824917609d3eb76e3efe1318610afd7b77be9e2258255c4b957
font_06_sfnt_off0000d9e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9E0 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f