Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52a1f7bda1fa0a5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.4 KB Created: 2020-08-08 18:17:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: be862a6de8f23b806e7ac8158f50ed15 SHA-1: 88945df5de93ddcb1b7c92b224ca0cb71ff91731 SHA-256: 52a1f7bda1fa0a5fe238a2863577c0f42bf7c9eba58755e19bdff033af481f06
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.001 Malicious Link T1566.002 Spearphishing Link

The PDF contains a lure to install a browser extension or update, which is a common social-engineering tactic. It also hosts a large number of external PDF links, many of which point to benign content, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious infrastructure at ttraff.com. This suggests the primary goal is to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or credential theft.

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.
  • 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
  • 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=couper+un+pdf+en+plusieurs+pdf+adobe In PDF document text
    • http://files.te-equipment.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857390/xiperudozerinawuzuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.buttercreamlane.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384656/mejujofamobab-sapidowegidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jonlehrerdance.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739601/konolif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.glenlodgeholsteins.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814169/tusipokubixoze.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/1/0433/1841/1417/files/44251478804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4016/2470/files/45923463867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2579/1133/files/d105_john_deere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5663/6828/files/56209969806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6406/5188/files/44599024974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6926/8373/files/miwukobesuwagutasakivur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/21659337375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8447/1710/files/77878426267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9462/9788/files/97316017445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7423/8102/files/46287586591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5733/9816/files/jutawoxusut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7973/8278/files/93513694004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2235/8427/files/wemivogi.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_off00006bd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BD2 5000 bytes
SHA-256: c06bb891d19320c22d637ccda371a006d91cfc6aa049a3977d59105ea7de7482
font_01_sfnt_off00007cd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CD5 11252 bytes
SHA-256: ce5dbf1f0ed580d5da0bc9e115bc6291aa88565e95729a3a61b906f676939578
font_02_sfnt_off0000a098.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA098 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361