Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a0c931f5e41690c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.1 KB Created: 2020-08-24 16:05:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b6de535176113fc7cd127c3ef464e2b1 SHA-1: 10c494df305bd81af1fed7c5b11d0d0b9d776b95 SHA-256: 5a0c931f5e41690c7b978171015718f4445548e8125e4006ac4f5b38120dc5af
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content, potentially for phishing or malware delivery.

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.com/pify?keyword=ben+ten+cartoon+movie In PDF document text
    • http://nepaxu.yesindustrialsupply.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969280/212746d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemivofi.momentcapture.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857445/jexobanaw-fulet-kipilijimireg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.succeed2serve.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739379/xesexemepolepurod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cynthiabjorn.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606027/930971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.entertainmentforkidsparties.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437987/536d246bc5a.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/1/0430/6770/3457/files/borderlands_the_pre_sequel_athena_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4663/2615/files/action_plan_steps.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8320/9631/files/zitiwofidatib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/8699/5616/files/autothermal_reforming_process_flow_diagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2470/9782/files/bk_precision_lcr_meter_878b_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1947/4856/files/retinoblastoma_adalah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/6457/8463/files/esl_adjectives_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6011/7160/files/buzomopazasogagobujipelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5296/5792/files/21315431265.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ab7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB7A 4844 bytes
SHA-256: 1d9ed62ea06d425818e267bf9d2ac7ffe57314f8559e32754d70bad14ce5bd55
font_01_sfnt_off0000bbdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBDF 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 2c461ad1a806801e3b9a28a907b6cdaaf3f1061fb1c1ed55ee996ecbd569b5b2

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