Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e3d16ec7335a763…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.5 KB Created: 2020-08-07 09:48:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0be4fc6aef2cf1fe7bf7593326748307 SHA-1: 01a6efe610daa7fd0b30f544dbc21f50c2a4612b SHA-256: 5e3d16ec7335a763a146ceb30bf64e9fde17ef1958d0f5722e1dbd59be688cb4
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document acts as a lure, masquerading as a "CCNA 1 chapter 2 pdf" to entice users. It contains a mass of external PDF links, many pointing to a redirector infrastructure at ttraff.com, which is known for malicious activity. The document also instructs users to copy and paste content into command-line interfaces, suggesting an attempt to trick users into executing malicious commands. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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=ccna+1+chapter+2+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.whilewaitingblog.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406985/af1951d71f2d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.memay-mysteries.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407424/967345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.clubnahakaratedo.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695629/nanizomak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.chrisandjohnholidayhomes.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438418/tumefopunumozibopij.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/1/0432/2436/7262/files/xojimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8200/7199/files/sevafarakujuluzuman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/sufijidudapurutukowur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9511/3374/files/bawedibomujosifixaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6509/8918/files/81369691755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0486/2374/files/sativaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/13578549785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5763/5735/files/61158963726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0112/4760/files/metovivagajibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8319/2727/files/40524530994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2004/0866/files/restart_heroku_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8632/2600/files/saxarabifaxukorulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8404/4705/files/list_of_months.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000910c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x910C 5124 bytes
SHA-256: d2ce0e6f008b3afdd9010b1b89ae8640e19a827597cf6193727865086afd0481
font_01_sfnt_off0000a27c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA27C 10184 bytes
SHA-256: e031a13a43e166a8d3f5db5dbced2b7014a11e5635878c63412bdeb0477997da