Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96ce6a933d5a0581…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-09-19 22:40:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 105aafb1f1a42edf8da4b413c9b7433c SHA-1: ef223e026337674ea25562ca3f5a2c6eb85c874f SHA-256: 96ce6a933d5a05814a75a202f18e171c23ccab1fbc4f058cdb7c8cc67e1781ae
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Triangular arbitrage algorithm' and includes numerous URLs that appear to be part of a link farm. This suggests the document is designed for SEO manipulation or to lead users to 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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.club/wix?keyword=triangular+arbitrage+algorithm In PDF document text
    • http://tojupi.avisplacechildcare.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814579/343cb82584b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tlc-travels.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738993/rugosazevesuz_tebawumujonalov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.islandhillfarm.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682778/fijipu-kaganakibi-nunirita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.latechhub.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681749/kojesisuzabid_kabevatufuxex_ganurono_fapamizedoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diwere.mrsranard.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969644/fuvolexuxotokam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lodesa.northsidebandsnc.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070306/3976648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mjshslionbackers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406736/lazivobunepeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rorawa.leighjaynes.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874474/9d43d32209d50.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rainbowbayestates.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738870/3809852.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/1/0432/5854/4292/files/crazy_monkey_studios.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7919/7081/files/85062470309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3346/8839/files/fovovugunebugidebodube.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_off00005f91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F91 5008 bytes
SHA-256: f77737f0f536cc2c2534cdf43e03ba10683f70ca33df912180e56a18d32e7654
font_01_sfnt_off00007071.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7071 11164 bytes
SHA-256: cd20a6b04bbef86d2bc1695af40e25a945f225585f25e77dbf83f06b3b57a989