Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5db617f1ad1e219b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.4 KB Created: 2020-08-08 11:51:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e1212fbfa2622d7c627cd84db7a87adf SHA-1: 37b112685e9b367021afbe88610d8a3b77a68760 SHA-256: 5db617f1ad1e219bffa8643120248c7b8e27c2d43b1b42bef77fd5726f7398d4
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for downloading a PDF related to 'algorithms and data structures'. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt, likely using a spearphishing attachment as the initial access vector. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=algorithms+and+data+structures+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vududobar.fillmaninsurance.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437402/lamufokodixe_mawizusod_sebuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fitworks1.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874543/siturikatonunevov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.skyviewwa.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873717/tefuvemodixol-nebidimeno-kafujur.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/1/0429/9853/0202/files/cardiomiopatia_restrictiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9266/3702/files/vigifaxonamuvuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7258/4861/files/naxedibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8014/5313/files/16871584391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1509/3920/files/76103444255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7727/1706/files/fadevapizuredawigibawin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2688/9369/files/46192747278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1748/4957/files/adn_polymerase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2516/8544/files/pipojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2494/9153/files/jakavulefovajaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5523/4710/files/15076287233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5150/7112/files/89307359908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3080/5671/files/41326169218.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_off000078c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78C1 5440 bytes
SHA-256: b1f1532cbe55f5472db3f29db9c086c680bd61d4f6312822deca94b0d9c4d3d3
font_01_sfnt_off00008b12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B12 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 201362107f5aff7771865f0e34ee6693b7959cf73208c0c8d7282b819932a241
font_02_sfnt_off0000ae9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE9E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f