Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad2b41ec425b256a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-21 19:42:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 86819b732fa8fc2b5f9042daa962a829 SHA-1: b3300958363a5e57ba5ac5e8388823e524f50e28 SHA-256: ad2b41ec425b256aea773130c73068e811a6bb562bc0becf2e19d1cc8d6d48ac
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in Systems

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded external links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=osaka+japan+tour+guide', which is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site. The document body itself is largely unreadable binary data, but the presence of numerous links, including those pointing to potentially malicious infrastructure, strongly suggests a social engineering attack aimed at luring users to compromised or malicious content.

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=osaka+japan+tour+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.standishbiblechurch.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164130/ligas-losixunak-budubovevisubok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rarijotu.buchspielerrecords.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482962/wuzugolutapu_tubimav_vofexiza_wugeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.prideofbaker.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816042/rawipamu-dolatarobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rainbowrevelry.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163867/libew-gusalezuku.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/64238793182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8941/2767/files/92242245322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4929/4756/files/convert_cdf_to_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9212/3560/files/piriletinexatadorekuguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8525/0216/files/report_card_comments_for_behavior_problems.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4885/3926/files/wowebol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2798/8634/files/fefaxatego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5921/4501/files/airplane_flying_handbook_2017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1645/4305/files/xazilosobogugiviwoloz.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_off00005e28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E28 5264 bytes
SHA-256: 87564cda6a235a66d921990031029e9a0d6513be92c3bf59395b385a45d471e9
font_01_sfnt_off0000701e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x701E 10704 bytes
SHA-256: d840b59129987a3a4524acbe7df0583f8b788f48386983a4ee711892aefba600
font_02_sfnt_off000094b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x94B2 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9af6fc3bf9d751f70540aea0fa47faa159a3604992cda23d2adcda3ffc5346b2