Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a006819fa5d4759b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.4 KB Created: 2020-08-21 18:52:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 44707d9d04fe425ba158753da7be14c8 SHA-1: 3be417fed7baf49a3654987499006a36221aed81 SHA-256: a006819fa5d4759b37e1f71e4fc07ab59706fcacc7d3268d4984b36781cb37ab
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a link farm. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=the+canterville+ghost+summary+chapter+wise+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's purpose is to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

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/pify?keyword=the+canterville+ghost+summary+chapter+wise+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lucreciadesignsllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069968/1574663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alekstaistra.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384145/lowiwififev-napuzade-jaseravuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shinyaxe.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813804/dakakubagafubifex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konan.mooremelodies.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681670/netufefefajeza-miroxugu.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/1/0434/0462/4021/files/24808446392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1057/1940/files/52415517297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9807/1450/files/15849844161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2070/6204/files/66595787434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6181/4172/files/wezapififerago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9074/6271/files/basic_concept_of_time_value_of_money.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6374/5441/files/xifitijirunajapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8517/6736/files/autocad_commands_tutorial.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_off00009ea1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9EA1 5772 bytes
SHA-256: bebcc89715dc85078202eb085783ba802986d6447d12b345ea5424f72c6b9a5e
font_01_sfnt_off0000b235.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB235 10124 bytes
SHA-256: 047a6c960bb68e18e16193a8092c9c4a9aac5989b576605776ce47539ebc3003