Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52a0ed27e639d811…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-26 08:44:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 73808a468b6ef4bd57f316827c686c8d SHA-1: 2225876c88ef541eb81835e2c1a39451c53e0b56 SHA-256: 52a0ed27e639d811802d0466d069ec0eaaf2be03ede7736fb42c9d87e04a319e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link farm pointing to a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=%25C3%25A7emberde+yay+uzunlu%25C4%259Fu+sorular%25C4%25B1. The document body appears to be largely obfuscated or corrupted, but the presence of numerous links suggests a delivery mechanism for a phishing or scam campaign, potentially leveraging SEO techniques to distribute malicious content.

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.cc/pify?keyword=%25C3%25A7emberde+yay+uzunlu%25C4%259Fu+sorular%25C4%25B1 In PDF document text
    • http://files.trinitydentalcentre.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680813/9412074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rufiosrumblings.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738641/fanekadarub_tudofun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zukot.coachjacobson.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164066/xojiporitaliza_vivilefexo_regukedaxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peberore.sunshinecoastcounselling.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437906/8918879.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/1/0429/1022/0447/files/dnd_5e_arcane_archer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3151/8622/files/wotaxiwukomex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6341/8784/files/16800488018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/5756/9946/files/sample_answers_writing_task_1_ielts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0012/6880/files/best_free_airplay_app_for_android_tv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4026/0775/files/mojililominegenesunezoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1851/8681/files/5766930263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5172/8546/files/jidovuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0772/0094/files/65382062213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6420/4193/files/33046490374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9015/7474/files/17153849223.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ca0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CA0 5616 bytes
SHA-256: e0fa2a0b56946fc996aa09ed9c78be2197a7b04482576945e47e8030c1de46ca
font_01_sfnt_off00006f56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F56 1800 bytes
SHA-256: e9a5a1f6ed95b1e3669933bb00002ad32a1708c3e0b735191cad5e02368a6c7d
font_02_sfnt_off000077e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77E4 12540 bytes
SHA-256: 1bb3f4d40ffe09ec77fff0dacafb558a0ceaf763e1a9958d01fe13b236cd1c46