Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5318ea83ea03ef64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.8 KB Created: 2020-08-03 21:01:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 40af210416ac7dcd37737b659dab0b56 SHA-1: 4f93d2e410a5647916937b2aa4e6969be5112d6d SHA-256: 5318ea83ea03ef64cd5e7a8841276ae19428e3cafa75fcf7eff29de9820d6ce9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a common tactic for SEO poisoning and redirecting users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is disguised as a chemistry textbook PDF. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and references to chemistry textbooks, reinforcing the lure. The presence of multiple shopify.com links, while marked as benign, are part of a larger link farm strategy. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering through a deceptive document.

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=peter+atkins+principios+de+quimica+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.give60for60.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857120/de204f749c83.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.herbheathmusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380759/6917697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.callidevalleyvet.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483281/wivotata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sokubi.walkingmeditation.eu/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452836/58bf743acc35f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.justingalushaphotography.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740329/jadubisejuneg_jonepirepapu.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/1/0432/8013/8398/files/dovebowunelukulepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3292/0732/files/49158112403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4303/5048/files/princess_mononoke_soundtrack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8996/1884/files/dugijal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4008/0025/files/42586491611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8037/5704/files/vuwovitapawagegarovaguvew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6641/7571/files/somunabufawul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9226/2560/files/26841716125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6550/6966/files/72950374926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1264/4251/files/dark_souls_2_whips.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3223/9528/files/zifuvefedaloxibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2158/8888/files/kikowezozuseviri.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_off00004cfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CFB 5460 bytes
SHA-256: 2a0d3c0db10d6afd8d383f607412e687860a07e7d636e94075a1b126ebf97f91
font_01_sfnt_off00005f7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F7F 10060 bytes
SHA-256: b0d7253ded19dfd36fd7bd5da4fd9d21a011b4247dd8eb0be0706a0ebcf0d6e6