Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae10d05edb756bc9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 20:13:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 97ce630549f51cb3d24f34a88bb29b25 SHA-1: c40480aba21278fdd639c712fc69d222f95a7db6 SHA-256: ae10d05edb756bc989b00d596fd8fc1a6576cab444bc38df010165f06a3461e7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one prominent link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=ap+spanish+literature+book+answers', which is flagged as malicious. This suggests the PDF is designed to trick users into visiting malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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=ap+spanish+literature+book+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.realisticproductions.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775260/9662421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.blazesolar.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384539/7120887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zipake.benseverson.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681351/8243395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.montaukmist.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740620/bomuwetuzadezagomugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retifaz.thefitdietitian.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379326/4389617.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/1/0438/9899/4856/files/xiwarozejivibusabegume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4211/1650/files/dovikalewupizosatanidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7301/0840/files/futoxesubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9993/8211/files/70697589897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7723/8945/files/paradise_lost_book_1_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6517/0334/files/all_bodybuilding_workouts_pdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4444/5092/files/fosunotolilovura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9586/8067/files/deponoxudamodimojefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6763/7922/files/download_light_novel_classroom_of_the_elite_sub_indo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1449/4107/files/battlefield_mobile_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0880/3495/files/jaxamofowagedegoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3909/5973/files/florence_mcclure_womens_correctional_cr.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_off00007c2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C2A 5076 bytes
SHA-256: 80eb39aebc65b0f96390d449b6b44fbc1e528fc8318fa0976d876354bfff2e79
font_01_sfnt_off00008d5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D5C 11540 bytes
SHA-256: 695e82354cd5fd5037b328d9a29553a26328c45587c8be5d635aeb9dbaf5713c
font_02_sfnt_off0000b48d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB48D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3