Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b498c0d7271984e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-08-21 13:08:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ad59a59977293417a6057f2a994788fb SHA-1: 3fe49dc42a48a743b89a61309952df7f3e1e8fa2 SHA-256: 5b498c0d7271984e90c100bfe58f5d10b50bcba51d5b68422e2efcaa11129334
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous links designed to appear as legitimate downloads but redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically a redirector at 'ttraff.cc'. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of embedded URLs and a link farm suggests a phishing or scam attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via 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.cc/pify?keyword=top+self+help+books+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.shareslog.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381288/1148203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.unitedfacemasks.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740401/xejamuwev-dunewuj-sovolakib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dilajir.theravenreview.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738970/ed56af69.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.marriagecounselingindenver.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637257/satapelexodajeful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zozulo.warmnightcandles.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637881/golegumo.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/16216600544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7674/7413/files/pdf_splitter_and_merger_free_download_filehippo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1958/2110/files/19968562182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7003/7917/files/xepudupodibowovesov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3033/0019/files/49193735816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0826/1277/files/autocad_mep_2014_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/medade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0195/3952/files/nadetubolawabuwagemiwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0008/5160/files/apk_coc_fhx_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1712/6563/files/4687735959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/9192/9761/files/persuasive_writing_worksheets_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4235/4853/files/kakuxiwedun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2324/5207/files/joe_pass_ain_t_misbehavin.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_off000072f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72F8 4976 bytes
SHA-256: 2e5522184a81be59f45945fa89961a9831fcd47c227387966f975fcfc12ccbcf
font_01_sfnt_off000083d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83D7 2444 bytes
SHA-256: 4ae8fac4ab76fd2f0cc73f0125a8dac720b8ba70953040776cd8a8b9a4729da1
font_02_sfnt_off00008d7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D7E 10280 bytes
SHA-256: fef8761722f8d5b4e731808eb4c756c1fe008f75505876c4f5fc8af8d62d72f6