Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa8548d3e58d4f56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.2 KB Created: 2020-08-15 04:45:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5d2aaf7e5a776604a5ffde42a47271b8 SHA-1: c3277177fbb5ea297b8b03b4cc3872f39ecc7c47 SHA-256: aa8548d3e58d4f567ba6e8a00d512162d3c7e32128e327ec3311a5f742fd8029
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to `https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=new%20english%20file%20beginner%20test%20booklet%20pdf`. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, with numerous embedded links to PDF files hosted on various domains, including `cdn.shopify.com`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a 'new english file beginner test booklet pdf', which serves as a lure to encourage users to click the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/wb?keyword=new%20english%20file%20beginner%20test%20booklet%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.innovationneighborhoodphl.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453022/musokexo_nepugilaguponu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lnsrc.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681352/8e1190a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xakofaba.fpdinternational.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710773/tisiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fetomijim.kingdomchurchtx.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453540/putugugoliwexin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.acdapa.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814172/4432614.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tugerivedisabuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2883/9581/files/jetivafilezezuvebovexux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7194/6398/files/31466307105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/7023/8370/files/how_to_make_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5459/5224/files/academy_of_management_proceedings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3269/9292/files/32786911289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0744/1053/files/important_questions_for_class_12_accountancy_chapter_wise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0638/5573/files/8984102455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5381/6728/files/68452454458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8607/8369/files/pdf_to_word_ocr_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6579/4965/files/85479192824.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007854.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7854 5144 bytes
SHA-256: 92825c0dd7288dad049e4168bbc4706be622ec330b84898747d99dae00ad4621
font_01_sfnt_off000089d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89D7 10412 bytes
SHA-256: d97deb725833ebb81d7e786782c797b0628d86b5e98d192fa5d619ec3c9fe5d9
font_02_sfnt_off0000ad67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD67 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2