Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96159868aa8e3c36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.9 KB Created: 2020-07-13 20:24:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5e2e62195c1084579a421e6e2969d4d0 SHA-1: 06de2c6987e3b90db5f4b9749628fd5482f228e8 SHA-256: 96159868aa8e3c36374acda28b988157af0d3c095c8c9a6e9c94180316c6cb41
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, directing users to `https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=ctek%20us%207002%20manual`. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, with 21 embedded links pointing to various PDF files hosted on different domains. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, preventing a clear understanding of its intended content beyond the lure of a manual. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=ctek%20us%207002%20manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.belllog.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775827/2358242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.feedmysheeptemple.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740692/6665236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.innerheartpathways.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681002/46e9335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.solitaryislandsgamefishingclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379115/jisobudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rockvilleintegrativetherapist.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164075/3996584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.grounded-infrastructure.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813948/bojinakexada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.crumblesbynicole.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380596/3902028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shinethruaba.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637081/ziganivomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://baveriwada345211056.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/nufumefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tejodewawi.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/miwasidudimilasad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunazixuvavu.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/60865230493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ralinuze.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/vufotawamufevekila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://begazajalixu.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/90473292243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7505/1424/files/fedasinirapuzerijawamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bijuwosozawubuvenokuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/80084587067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0778/6654/files/76119217888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5446/5175/files/xatutaperutikaxofolemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9273/8201/files/63198688575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1885/4306/files/zadeted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0428/1511/files/juzoxuwedurodowemiledirol.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_off0000859a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x859A 4900 bytes
SHA-256: b8dfdb3c2478286680c755a721ebe09fbb37d1dc94cfb59642b119b2a0c73194
font_01_sfnt_off00009638.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9638 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 99408e4879d1384a1502e75ea5df340dc0e3a5ad0bd1260a8becf72b1da8db8f