Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e53d6858e555519…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-09 16:55:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bb53c1d7ad6e5e83c7a4c312df86be48 SHA-1: a3877a3036b32f21bde582f8573412eada76c46d SHA-256: 5e53d6858e5555196e403b15e1d35c92b42a7d2f1b160da02cfd38f9140df063
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the redirector URL and a list of other URLs, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of redirector links points towards an attempt to deliver a secondary payload or conduct phishing.

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=worthy+is+the+lamb+pdf+chords In PDF document text
    • http://riteraris.amylouise-psychotherapy.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383664/takin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.desertdolphin.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969545/5304496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vcda2.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682030/lebepol-bitebado-sereji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.willdeandesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437421/6096577.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/1/0433/0009/4112/files/asus_rt-_n66u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9143/5422/files/lobofuwuwegajupeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2010/7424/files/79285136702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4979/4213/files/bejiwevepido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3164/1762/files/32719475839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1839/4523/files/28808095275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2421/1354/files/76313730629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5399/8489/files/60665730262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2920/6939/files/makemkv_1._10._8_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9334/3912/files/32819437895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5048/4390/files/nidavafixoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5153/2963/files/analytic_geometry_ellipse_problems_with_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4647/8758/files/dides.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9748/9572/files/astm_a370_17a_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6063/3493/files/vapiwuxijopeligimepid.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_off00005483.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5483 5652 bytes
SHA-256: c1e49ab8152eb791e5e0603c01e911bcd1c81f76be5f1f8f1372f4e52fd492eb
font_01_sfnt_off0000679c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x679C 14908 bytes
SHA-256: a06a8c14d68f7c6164483fbd7798d877c997cacc254323c70dd1b3ffafa16376