Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a43a7b5f3ba4ac5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-09-09 14:16:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bf43c1f1bc232a42bf8f224dc97502ed SHA-1: 35e42f8c15801c89c7aa4eb1400ae8158412342f SHA-256: a43a7b5f3ba4ac5c9a56aba6fa8b2072f8a0f00ce865943dae5aa34ea2416aec
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, many of which point to known malicious redirectors or link farms. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=capote+2005+parents+guide, which likely leads to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to these URLs and appears to be a lure. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.club/wix?keyword=capote+2005+parents+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.cosanova.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813550/vefifefunejane_negozuguruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lijir.nonreligiousspiritual.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776485/rolowizorufisa-gewobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bujub.tac-teams.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776445/b12a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riminike.edukatewellness.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164243/ef3b0b1a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.moduswaste.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814229/jogufofovidow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hissyfitcoons.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871651/vepozetopa-mimivikekux-wizawosugegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wizedijal.coloradosmallweddings.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483627/e1beef29a66.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miwagi.eventhampton.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873843/6735177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.emilyrobards.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606335/rukevukexuxejom-lilamej-givivoj-kemaposubovog.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/1/0427/5906/1670/files/92154262527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8133/4935/files/ncert_ka_full_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7433/8454/files/motu_patlu_ki_jodi_hd_video.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/0786/8834/files/positive_economics_book_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1872/2216/files/tokazigemowagetetilovorez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7880/2846/files/25956984751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9010/7815/files/black_decker_cordless_trimmer.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_off0000787c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x787C 5400 bytes
SHA-256: b6e9d35c7fd715564adb4815d6b608a97268b7ece606d31440cec22437d108e2
font_01_sfnt_off00008ae4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AE4 10332 bytes
SHA-256: a66540d52ce7a4a73b359ba06d22fa858828b961705522279dc09f3c3f145044