Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2eb0a88c55b3feb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-10 03:35:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d866e32fc7d22c3b95b6ac66e7f524da SHA-1: 68f28b05c6574499d1546540f0efabb06fd24d2e SHA-256: b2eb0a88c55b3feb17fe1d62dffc3d0dc2dec60626245ef84ed6a05e3db27af7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a significant portion of which point to a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=car+logos+and+names+list+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, suggesting the intent is to lure the user to click through to a malicious site.

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=car+logos+and+names+list+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.reginaswatercolor.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163667/9de87fe76528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ryanshowland.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814058/2166429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.papershadestudio.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682335/dulomeda-laduxononiralum-lanose.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/1/0432/1725/6603/files/rinilimizugevipezezare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6486/6469/files/favozapofofekavekideg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1090/6518/files/8071404336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5020/4316/files/advantages_and_disadvantages_of_information_technology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6410/6901/files/11907773862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6390/1334/files/netcat_file_transfer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7371/5880/files/frequently_asked_synonyms_and_antonyms_in_competitive_exams.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6383/6834/files/types_of_altruism.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/soparuvuridove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4719/7594/files/90163769528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9454/0452/files/dinujibafoxegike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5513/7447/files/2919734469.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006b8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B8F 5268 bytes
SHA-256: 8285afa4721cc65c0fb5088466f82c421b65a5fcc4b696cead4e1a23a4e7999b
font_01_sfnt_off00007d60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D60 14524 bytes
SHA-256: ca949d29cf77dd30a8988d5e307f34c2ea99178daffe7262bb940ad6fc0e0771