Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95fe10ddda553d5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.1 KB Created: 2020-08-15 07:33:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c3c1137d7dcaad20bbc33eaa15012b9f SHA-1: 6da017c1a1483cf10be21e442643f2fafb3267a7 SHA-256: 95fe10ddda553d5fd402f6bd6b98cf95323cab27175eb6f4c00f3690522f9f0f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=ark+survival+evolved+kibble+cheat+sheet', likely leads to a malicious site. The document also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector and the link farm heuristic strongly indicate a phishing or redirection attack.

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/pify?keyword=ark+survival+evolved+kibble+cheat+sheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.bahamassportsnetwork.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775027/xodazel_gazutovapotawe_dabalex.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/1/0435/1816/5144/files/81470663573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nefodegaxinavikiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7482/9987/files/challenging_irrational_thoughts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3655/7987/files/gidapomudiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5970/7037/files/litaworevosamip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8780/7129/files/41901467535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0383/7591/files/75917588068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3714/7811/files/69581544225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2218/6653/files/solving_quadratic_equations_by_quadratic_formula_examples_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0310/1863/files/ledifunevaboxopuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/55742160690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1517/5317/files/principales_causas_del_analfabetismo_en_mexico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8208/7588/files/94483494192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8037/5704/files/headway_beginner_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5391/6065/files/butterfly_valve_dimensions.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
🗂 Part of campaign: bahamassportsnetwork.com 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004bed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4BED 5280 bytes
SHA-256: bf1036514de88bce050c162825337fd9151f13f9ba808674fbdb17b4d991eb5d
font_01_sfnt_off00005dd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DD4 9820 bytes
SHA-256: c376447b6ac1dac869f3265fad0b91ab0753513b8aa53b4f2bde6ee716e373fa