Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a078add9d946d1d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-02 16:06:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b5de44fb823a092f83ddb162a31c65b5 SHA-1: 0ac8f8566f23aa5cd9a39bc6390e3c16124de4c4 SHA-256: a078add9d946d1d0e68d8af2a1904ddf3efe93755a1091666c238ec3d03de069
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, a common technique for SEO poisoning or link farms. One of these links, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=kagerou+theme+overlay, is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains what appears to be junk data, but the presence of the malicious redirector URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

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=kagerou+theme+overlay In PDF document text
    • http://files.frenellesangalang.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814241/jijukonotusofaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.the59edsel.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378990/gavutuvejune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mcclainmatthewsinsurance.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409090/7232005.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/1/0439/8841/8718/files/gefunik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2123/6381/files/52145066313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0426/2561/files/zemazovosawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6113/2968/files/74795272981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1396/3939/files/64669264923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5681/6540/files/juwusabovisurowevateneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2439/2087/files/kafejalumitazinobox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6224/7080/files/40090550420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6360/6429/files/craigslist_ie_jobs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7378/8321/files/xuvuzidizokarutim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9536/7585/files/26630511910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2778/4095/files/1386202600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0034/7299/files/96958298590.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000060ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60FF 5052 bytes
SHA-256: e9329c6a203aa80b6344fc5ce1f5d5ab5ed81ab6eeab0310a81a0e667221b610
font_01_sfnt_off0000721a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x721A 10016 bytes
SHA-256: 5d04267466d479161fa8b5ec5005200acac6f9fd077469570aceee008476b047
font_02_sfnt_off00009497.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9497 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 40362fbc9d771ad4ffebf23d851d0e608cbe5e910bc9c9578be8a04431091e8d