Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f4711737839cb91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-03 00:27:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e5eb28d5237f59787515baaa2325a7c0 SHA-1: 62e5069c1cb63d16e8ab68abc1aac6006965432e SHA-256: 5f4711737839cb914bde3976f5ec2293eb53ef4936d64430b5b9250d36297d19
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to known malicious infrastructure, specifically a redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to 'Guild Wars 2 tailoring guide', likely to entice users to click the malicious link. The presence of numerous external PDF links further indicates a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute 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.com/pify?keyword=guild+wars+2+tailoring+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.anointed.store/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409090/fofalevirefewiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.malene-degn.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438177/c27cbb338fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.projectfocuspeermentors.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406717/mogixomop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nazarenemissions.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398252/14a1897de960c0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.edgesanddreams.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407549/8919129.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tukesameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0688/6051/files/povugonenenivovolisen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3592/6434/files/defomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7546/9473/files/kelisekoteliwadabisix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/deved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7861/4168/files/wulewej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/9764/0360/files/quran_with_urdu_translation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/18608783112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6954/6395/files/74175112627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0732/7904/files/magus_sisters_ffx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1336/4121/files/kididalatotujonejupuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0703/9895/files/vafakorefemujede.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_off000073a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73A6 5248 bytes
SHA-256: 839553e3de898529c4ae9d2f802c85c0830526e872a895ce975384a67f6ba886
font_01_sfnt_off000085a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85A6 9776 bytes
SHA-256: ba31aecd869f22425a40334a8d3a6f03811f4ac7ea354a68453bcf88cbb4d1df