Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e9ab4db19d066e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.7 KB Created: 2020-09-18 05:45:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cb86f44e5599dff5dbe791c21e676018 SHA-1: 6e13a323582278b1a02c5ac7cca0e7b3c442d753 SHA-256: 5e9ab4db19d066e62b4015b1a3876a33d2e22a8e1b3f536e564453772b5600a3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector domain (ttraff.club) with keywords suggesting a lure for educational content. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicate a large number of external links, likely to facilitate phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the embedded links and the nature of the lure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

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.club/wix?keyword=molecular+formula+worksheet+answers+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tijelona.oharaikebananorcal.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071243/9114056595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilapuj.phoenixhomesuk.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695629/didawevuvinufeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunasuka.adsgoround.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482995/3b19a2b.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/1/0459/0531/3946/files/concierto_de_aranjuez_guitar_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9063/2101/files/rajigozusilulexusoxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1540/4702/files/emoji_show_me_the_money.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/sapivarobalin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8125/2512/files/15458643945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1093/3414/files/lotuxekuparewisiwov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4726/3131/files/diveku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8276/6750/files/suxetinetobovapexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0483/2126/5828/files/tirarifesajibepile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5767/5421/files/best_book_for_surgery.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4118/4165/files/embed_reports_and_dashboards_in_visualforce_page.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/8510/3003/files/tisunopared.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6627/7534/files/assamese_movie_mission_china_video_song.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009658.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9658 2828 bytes
SHA-256: a17885b4fd577e0298a64705d5055d2ac7c2363fd7008e9cf236b3df412a17d8
font_01_sfnt_off0000a052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA052 5556 bytes
SHA-256: 442b853f38f7af4a590c32b0e9376b9efd41c8b989d14253085b8fd442c285d3
font_02_sfnt_off0000b32c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB32C 9928 bytes
SHA-256: fcf877e3e574ad2f1341949d515cc3abd236563583498728fd85d76e298a7f68
font_03_sfnt_off0000d510.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD510 16256 bytes
SHA-256: fa9e869adbbc5ee64651a30a304ccd9eac3eb552e3e4cffb48803d235cc110ba