Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b029120cc4aeee59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.7 KB Created: 2020-08-25 03:25:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f0ed00c673a73065ee0455249290c145 SHA-1: 917e43e8d929b746596462cddbb51784341a20af SHA-256: b029120cc4aeee59e0e84dfdf18fbadf514003c506460acf764d42246b724c2f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is known to host malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Microsoft access templates for manufacturing' and the redirector URL, suggesting a lure to entice users to click the malicious links. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=microsoft+access+templates+for+manufacturing In PDF document text
    • http://files.alebml.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681647/8464764.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/1/0437/6693/9799/files/pawopikutogolofolomad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4185/7448/files/25337320158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3078/9800/files/absorbing_markov_chain.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2017/3983/files/acca_f2_notes_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7713/9613/files/nowavasokad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3975/8235/files/nadifigemapabov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4654/1211/files/xusufakelirizulojexet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4713/2063/files/gate_2020_mechanical_engineering_syllabus_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5097/5910/files/20968575415.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bd64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD64 5340 bytes
SHA-256: 1ca35d18582ff0cf023f3d2e616c4fcc7a97bf56b440e4d2e88eefb8651e6544
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF7B 13704 bytes
SHA-256: 4addb1487e15652f66b7594e484b4a236a08dba2c66495b298834d3125a85fe0

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