Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a00dae3ee2619d9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

142.2 KB Created: 2020-08-07 04:57:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: aebba48db7549b4f0454dbe117147459 SHA-1: 2195677a77314772a788f3740d8429162fe23dc2 SHA-256: a00dae3ee2619d9fb553290c78959f985e26b22f2be14639c8e402f61530525d
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, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=benefits+of+speaking+in+tongues+pdf'. This URL is presented within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The file is a PDF, and the presence of embedded links points towards a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=benefits+of+speaking+in+tongues+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sugarvedelmiesmunkavedelmikft.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380583/c70d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lifepathchurch.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132711954/e0c383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.manskins.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606011/jolabemebago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9468/8419/files/gitubasejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1692/0994/files/84615475141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5651/9576/files/62815032150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6457/2569/files/gagosupaxorurevokexuzudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5241/7703/files/56346875140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7146/3831/files/88340018998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6534/2117/files/comparative_short_and_long_adjectives_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5161/3334/files/tamubelaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1411/1903/files/rusifugovutukafirexum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1770/7413/files/livro_liberalismo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4572/5094/files/kufaxebedubo.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: lifepathchurch.org 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001e5c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E5C7 5076 bytes
SHA-256: 3cf07822e274accd1438e66f79f30c729c78fcc0f16ecc1760c6032fad3eb19a
font_01_sfnt_off0001f724.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F724 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 528bed670156446216b85ec352c5aba24880ba25e8c704e643892c6dd0a29c84
font_02_sfnt_off00021ccb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21CCB 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333