Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e7893a900554daf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.3 KB Created: 2020-08-04 11:10:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 26ef8d5b349ca5374b6090405f11c91d SHA-1: d5c17a370b509fee1a223d4076c43309346a7f16 SHA-256: 5e7893a900554dafa4754d1fd2e6a8edfabccb4c8c68b4350e40c67aca9106b5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=anthropocentric+environmental+ethics+pdf' is identified as a malicious redirector. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

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=anthropocentric+environmental+ethics+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.theragirl.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969277/9296062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oliviamcgiff.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379371/7d4f62c5e4b3a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.victoria-security.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969424/345ed5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.colvigconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740925/rupazakokosotu.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/1/0434/6911/1449/files/muparigek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6176/3480/files/barogegofomuzavagobotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/669297692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1158/6722/files/66247888020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8197/3416/files/vagimilonekaximileneko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6693/1865/files/18932870910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/41230052817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1692/6870/files/febokudoginere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0903/2863/files/80543629520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5014/7745/files/nulalubutituwukax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6819/4978/files/51863514774.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_off0000a088.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA088 5444 bytes
SHA-256: ac4468052c08d7dc05bb8e3eacf157c51e0f868e85f743defd807e8c54394f4f
font_01_sfnt_off0000b2e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2E9 17048 bytes
SHA-256: a63d4c8aa242a1293d21e74acfbce47c99bf4dcad46b12935387138399aafd45