Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abc262ee02230358…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-18 20:28:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 546094dc319629afde2819b5ca9457f9 SHA-1: 3e2d7e4ba5a2352ed6a6132446aab1f80bacd406 SHA-256: abc262ee02230358287eea555cf991fe47617ceadb8cb5f17783703311d4399c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=fdv303n+data+sheet', which is likely the malicious redirector. The file also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning or to obscure the ultimate destination. The primary attack pattern is to lure the user into clicking the malicious link under the guise of a data sheet.

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=fdv303n+data+sheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.arizonadpsrp.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453897/zoxoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gulfcoasttransgenderalliance.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695339/beteguwufuvuganikel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jonnystills.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378942/kopoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thehouseofsufyan.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407802/6aec00ca67.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/1/0445/8138/8452/files/hit_em_high.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1230/8637/files/97492870599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3010/1668/files/22734881819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9403/2025/files/67140661970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4829/6857/files/libikibezet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2301/4824/files/astm_a182_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3983/4791/files/bleak_house_charles_dickens_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/1677/6862/files/29756955954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5063/0296/files/turezasomixodipumavobal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7880/9755/files/15072441850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7763/1126/files/85968744064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0163/4213/files/english_vocabulary_with_definition.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_off000050d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50D8 5104 bytes
SHA-256: 32495a09e6418e169007f4ec83b3afb56593e8564167a34c7c6abff00f97d765
font_01_sfnt_off0000623d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x623D 15328 bytes
SHA-256: 8e00feacedbf47cda63dce31d50a246e856f37fbd042c349228778f35fbadc55
font_02_sfnt_off00009279.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9279 16260 bytes
SHA-256: d25a34a56be33791b66bd7dbe91ee772b39b89bee75ba0e64ef3ea6cb2c10b57