Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aadc3bffcdb6e388…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.5 KB Created: 2020-09-22 00:07:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 83f41f9c95ba5903372a2baece419076 SHA-1: b8a29e010c61af7e633384df21ee3d73d61a55e3 SHA-256: aadc3bffcdb6e38851b154c12c2a0af394a93b6fdf8ad876a71b2bad10e86384
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a lure related to 'Audials one 2020 discount' and embeds numerous links. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=audials+one+2020+discount', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with many links pointing to external PDFs hosted on various domains. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' suggests a social engineering tactic to trick users into installing unwanted software or visiting malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.link/wix?keyword=audials+one+2020+discount In PDF document text
    • http://files.blastingworksolution.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739628/tokawogunuleforez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lofagukiz.with-jill.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695454/ee406a92.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wauwatosabasketballclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775848/0658c9a9f0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.goalpublications.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740362/3142829.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/1/0430/4479/8613/files/27708835853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2177/0656/files/adidas_size_guide_trousers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4000/4501/files/52094804947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5322/5883/files/mojatafinigikif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f24250af-e699-4fab-a352-8c0a0355cb9e.filesusr.com/ugd/f0e51d_c3b05f7bda7e4b3eb8f8456c8e79cf6c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dbc321f8-e931-4e28-a8bb-852133f086fd.filesusr.com/ugd/67e251_c88b205d62af4bb3854bce56ca10b5d0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://eceded20-9b36-4fa0-9f3d-86f98feb2956.filesusr.com/ugd/a640e9_efdb99b18df3452e80af5725aff1c6b8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b5e37d31-d4f2-4930-a10c-c03ecff41b57.filesusr.com/ugd/9eb187_9e3daded4143400d9d527b7fcaefda91.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://025fe4c3-cf83-47de-a13a-2a8f344de6cf.filesusr.com/ugd/98e2de_ad75ee7cba6a4877bc392967f96e104f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3293/6605/files/vizudalotilovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2693/2124/files/52107802672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9354/7424/files/block_launcher_pro_apk.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn 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

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Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000062ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62AE 6440 bytes
SHA-256: 3d4760ca295192c89086870ebbac49c5a5945404ea6ab57fca452cf2db5f569a
font_01_sfnt_off000072a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72A2 4984 bytes
SHA-256: 3e24c0753c84974088594a0c63d838580c0c21ff27b442a2894b543ea309cf07
font_02_sfnt_off0000839b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x839B 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 86cbe0f50f4aa61d4f7cca564ebe8e7e22f67358b84200378fff3b63ef9f9924
font_03_sfnt_off0000a829.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA829 16036 bytes
SHA-256: 52db30b66cfb76898988bc7c6ed152514c301740808ab95bec9c68e49df23550
font_04_sfnt_off0000bc91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC91 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e

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