Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5b1e00ed401fb6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-08-14 10:39:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 46db330dda4384c54876cf621af8dd6f SHA-1: e3c428d6885f693a4d5e2676459e0d1a84dfbecd SHA-256: a5b1e00ed401fb6bd93d47388802c9fc6458292f754a48ed900f83a4121ee04b
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, pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which resolve to Shopify domains but are likely used to manipulate search engine results or redirect users. The document body contains the string 'Barron's ap biology' and a URL that appears to be the primary malicious redirector, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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.cc/pify?keyword=barron%2527+s+ap+biology In PDF document text
    • http://files.illlaladesigns.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681456/4736275aa01.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.meccadance.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969708/xunis_pagaloxamazixit_gajagalub_jaragipiradila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.randfishbein.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407278/zoloteketemunaf.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/1/0432/0673/8079/files/lopez_lake_fish_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0706/5757/files/30665050961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8920/6174/files/acta_constitutiva_formato_para_llenar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8799/5814/files/25659966979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/7146/5624/files/urdu_dictionary_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8976/5279/files/gimekodugujanurawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lujodegiduwidixerilaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5829/1093/files/palos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3629/3785/files/44781232673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5180/3033/files/24355307244.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005741.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5741 4900 bytes
SHA-256: f5b04c0a54ad312681fca625a1633459b105dd2e8d217497a454578a1ae2ce39
font_01_sfnt_off000067e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67E3 10380 bytes
SHA-256: d1da1c49b64f68b43548af4e7da33e9819ed11a693d59b9eb72fa95087904577
font_02_sfnt_off00008b97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B97 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9af6fc3bf9d751f70540aea0fa47faa159a3604992cda23d2adcda3ffc5346b2
font_03_sfnt_off0000a05e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA05E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3