Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a02af3d5e20f17e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.4 KB Created: 2020-08-03 18:54:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 58857146ae1d08bb63e6628728548c34 SHA-1: eceb499af729ff626e09c2c6b360a6b13823f3af SHA-256: a02af3d5e20f17e8ecf482fd2f1aa2ee6c16c343d63efbfa9c587e8a5ecb131d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cds+2020+2nd+paper+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure. No scripts were extracted, and the PDF structure itself is the vector for the 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.com/pify?keyword=cds+2020+2nd+paper+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.bellinfischer.de/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814329/8adc0e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oakwindhoa.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681698/502251708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gildenlodge.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775046/jupuwafavuki-pibem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kaydelynnphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775286/koripelarupefobes.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/1/0437/0569/6409/files/68539844178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9304/1053/files/gixopofozidonok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wixedazatujiguxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9617/6795/files/pejusazijofeminoxetade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2067/3433/files/sekotabewunujifas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2378/5370/files/waguxajevuvudigaduzumibin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9093/4949/files/tebipabixironeroneladig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9114/0510/files/42334851489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/34456372212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1403/7409/files/10802117662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1510/0826/files/kissmanga_one_piece.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7515/7670/files/lock_and_key_sarah_dessen.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ba08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA08 5180 bytes
SHA-256: ea94af440c5f118f8fe81238e3d593e39a9873b25c0b4c361d1bf8044da38fa0
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBB1 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 41fb186730ca28709cc2d81dea8a74eaaafa8ac4b090e596c7fff4eda4a31ce4

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