Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ae472998e062948…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.8 KB Created: 2020-08-11 01:55:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a3acc063266d2c43cdc3f911deb2e8e2 SHA-1: 3ded44acad35ac1d59d5b00bf239ed573fe94b6c SHA-256: 5ae472998e06294814a8acb131ecd0806d3afc91c7f7e384b2ebb3756deca164
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links, including one to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com. This redirector is likely used to funnel users to phishing sites or distribute further malware. The document body itself contains text and URLs related to 'free download' lures, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious redirector links and SEO link farming suggests a distribution mechanism for 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.com/pify?keyword=basic+electrical+engineering+book+pdf+free+download+author+kothari In PDF document text
    • http://files.dubaiactivelife.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606284/8139295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sustainablesidekicks.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695556/godaxegarajid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gefinutat.rls-sciences.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969754/3692646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.selfhn.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407898/9789875.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/1/0434/0786/8060/files/27640284724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7917/8142/files/ffx_dark_valefor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8765/8141/files/callanetics_book_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zaduvezumutup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7169/2188/files/nature_live_wallpepar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9904/6553/files/analise_combinatoria_exercicios.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6790/0061/files/tatilupefevedaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6869/4432/files/34693909507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9941/3910/files/anesthsie_tronculaire_dentaire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8500/2920/files/26415864798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8996/1884/files/45559301621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4314/4359/files/zozag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7554/3964/files/sowatuxisojorolituwev.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_off00004aff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4AFF 5760 bytes
SHA-256: ccd0dc4873f8d0de666fbbff3352c90ab66749a51a2db783b04edb33bd15d55a
font_01_sfnt_off00005e9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E9A 9764 bytes
SHA-256: 00a12d4f5e2e24e9b893b89305fbd9dc5848aa0f8336b8b9b42fd4a4774430ba

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