Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65a531fcb0ef1755…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.7 KB Created: 2020-08-06 18:28:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 17aee3ade4b46f44e3f0b4433f2b50f3 SHA-1: 57dbbebdaf37921aa21595a685ffc93217744367 SHA-256: 65a531fcb0ef1755663669e36379e028cf0d36be9d6509aa148882c1850b07dc
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One prominent link, https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=working%20of%20vortex%20tube%20refrigeration%20pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content, likely for phishing 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/wb?keyword=working%20of%20vortex%20tube%20refrigeration%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.bridecon.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969923/sutikumunoxonem_jizuzomasoja_lavifegew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netuf.sethharrislaw.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712323/2d5eb54.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spirithorsetrc.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738805/tolabizi.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/1/0433/1149/7366/files/muzosurazan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/8661/5462/files/gns_3_ios_images.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1925/5456/files/sobani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4018/7303/files/2186465392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1565/8920/files/24374925844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/56325204281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0790/7752/files/fred_boat_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5774/9917/files/mafuwanalituve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bamizubonofosexewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4245/5197/files/3352637892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3826/7809/files/jukiwisazadem.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008770.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8770 5344 bytes
SHA-256: 48f8719297a34b22ba75da94b3129757c8c048f5cb8bec207e5309ee9d2de204
font_01_sfnt_off000099cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99CB 10148 bytes
SHA-256: 02ce503db8fd04558311c7b49154b793806e5720338f29f63129404788a4bb6c
font_02_sfnt_off0000bcd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCD5 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 713933360072c9d59346590fad668f98c3603c6d2b72ed941ce85481f6af0b74

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