Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ba4dd80943fb1d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.1 KB Created: 2020-08-09 03:30:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d456729883cae18a5693bb6809c74af1 SHA-1: e3b3d89958403066026c32e7eaf5e9f658fc0294 SHA-256: 5ba4dd80943fb1d2d0e40a537e1d6c444d500ddbdd505b970c6f94a4d697a85c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains numerous embedded links designed to create a link farm, with a primary redirector pointing to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that is also present in the heuristic firings, suggesting a lure for users to download further content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=barrier+free+environment+in+schools+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.wastelessjewelryandcompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454373/72e9ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sbcdallas.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814535/6ac85.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.raisingtheskirt.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813320/1022002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.4activelife.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814021/164229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0410/8711/files/pdf_file_reducer_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1826/4469/files/15324205887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4767/3253/files/38589480130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2613/6731/files/46449317816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3056/1436/files/36804749945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6248/4392/files/mrityunjay_kadambari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lalosukiwafigoledexefes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7831/1326/files/john_deere_ztrak_757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0044/7655/files/61008531090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8281/3341/files/libros_para_superar_la_ansiedad_y_depresion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1322/4094/files/35902184091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7387/2807/files/formal_email_writing_format.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4351/1703/files/fasepenujuwilapot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5212/1762/files/cal_spa_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9853/0201/files/20586056624.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_off00007476.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7476 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 35bf7b3ae834867448ccfd138d20d644a3915e85e75b692e5cb3a64a653fa30e
font_01_sfnt_off0000864e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x864E 10016 bytes
SHA-256: 07de3dd9abb794f3421be3d2299aeedf5e1f45027d092ad4c2baf889e00ffb55
font_02_sfnt_off0000a8b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA8B6 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2