Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ca153ea80df5709…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-09 03:19:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8146e6dafd8034490fcd3825d30ddd84 SHA-1: 64305be30a0d60e4ec9b1ffb4daa819a7b63f306 SHA-256: 6ca153ea80df5709983d59f3d28c6820e7d03db74018920e9487f134f6beaed6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on domains associated with SEO link farms. One prominent link, https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=one%20fish%20two%20fish%20red%20fish%20blue%20fish%20read%20pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious websites, 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.cc/wb?keyword=one%20fish%20two%20fish%20red%20fish%20blue%20fish%20read%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.trendyacresboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606697/3338019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bridgewaterwarmemorial.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398093/4d87a1399cddc94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.4thdvpanecs.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739971/1208183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.goheendesigns.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303314/mevonovivusip.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/1/0431/3173/2122/files/29775810434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4267/6648/files/44659102865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0463/2992/files/kusejulasamedotupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5350/4917/files/milusetujozetedevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2930/7293/files/76245575545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2114/8061/files/vudimijep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8377/5643/files/29978645849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/takuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8239/0435/files/what_is_a_cog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1222/7225/files/rixijeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8099/1388/files/fabewijewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6577/7059/files/6551284780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/34993807018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3546/7682/files/76222333225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9702/2879/files/babbitt_alloy.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_off00006293.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6293 5388 bytes
SHA-256: 996cbf2f7de011a2bf9619e54310ab3a5a63c92554585fbce5633bd141d64713
font_01_sfnt_off000074ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74EA 9920 bytes
SHA-256: ef129c383fdd30bd26fa789898b4657c7fd91527f6cff0f9e52da2e1e89d1033