Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 538056e84bb2339b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.3 KB Created: 2020-09-09 21:54:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f362bba0a81918642a89d2f45931fbdd SHA-1: 66cc76a2f48fadff28b70ab93d4717528bf47554 SHA-256: 538056e84bb2339bb5c861e32b248cf5c3821ae2a5d4ceaab79eedab565b2a41
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.me'. Another critical heuristic identified a large external PDF link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through deceptive links.

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.me/wix?keyword=caida+libre+ejercicios+resueltos+pdf+4+eso In PDF document text
    • http://jebege.mshabunal.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682883/f0551f7d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sciencesnail.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873833/1802504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.coachscottschemistry.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873893/9e478173fe5ffaf.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/1/0436/5372/6358/files/rutadawazekuvabosovatumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9078/9020/files/latuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9471/3244/files/rivibubebamikoxetibidug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7852/4832/files/bidart_campos_teoria_del_estado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9291/1007/files/84290546683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9cb6f4f93f3f483aa2a9a73aa8ca7ae9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/70e5f7_6ab956885e274c49b1a899f2d672a975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/565485_669a4f46794d4d109cfd32c51dfc4301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a0016_598ffdc319e64ac091dc70850f02f574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/57c819_ea94c51061e84dca9b17b50a158aa1f0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/43d598_762156f986ec4d4995b5390cd2b5c6ce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bf551a7e46aa44c3a958e961fa977820.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007777.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7777 6440 bytes
SHA-256: 3d4760ca295192c89086870ebbac49c5a5945404ea6ab57fca452cf2db5f569a
font_01_sfnt_off0000876b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x876B 5360 bytes
SHA-256: 008da4d880139af66d5bbd8d88c723b563b37b2e355da5639a048ff6ffae3a91
font_02_sfnt_off000099a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99A8 3676 bytes
SHA-256: 8557e22890982bcf48a5349cdaae36a85fbaafab5416c10e97c1e14c074d71ef
font_03_sfnt_off0000a7a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA7A2 10900 bytes
SHA-256: de98c682beb2f1fe202886bcb3172cb472b86ccee99f28c1174af56146bffe28
font_04_sfnt_off0000cb36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB36 16344 bytes
SHA-256: 9c47a8ecf7103172530608de19fa11afb8a035ab51042e9cb8c6809f09ebb189