Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b301c2ac5e2f837c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-15 09:20:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 9173077b5e851c2871142d53eaa21064 SHA-1: 80e1e90bbb3f5a1f59d69d9e9fc58a52492ce4eb SHA-256: b301c2ac5e2f837c4461ba92e1ca4183406d554824b4c45156f43caa6bc16914
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, directing users to 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=euston%20station%20map%20pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm pattern, embedding numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and references to other PDFs. The presence of a callback lure heuristic suggests a potential social engineering tactic to trick users into calling a fraudulent support line.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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/wb?keyword=euston%20station%20map%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vuzibi.teatimewithnaomi.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738720/rujijow_vepekuzawuk_sizig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wiwuvugat.lungbuster.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681072/6597294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aaronhunttheatre.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681880/3648315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lusif.stepintoyourjoy.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874001/tefakevag_punikabekidoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.votelogan53.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741476/jedafivejalam-gasope-sexinax.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/1/0433/1618/3205/files/kisijasexazivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3791/6312/files/how_to_decalcify_pineal_gland.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4891/8440/files/arnold_schwarzenegger_the_new_encyclopedia_of_modern_bodybuilding.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7427/3948/files/quimica_descriptiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9467/5357/files/kadambari_in_kannada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8818/1400/files/vipiwake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2182/0319/files/3818525136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5780/6486/files/22736120140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6840/7464/files/program_convert_to_word_support_arabic.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5225/3863/files/36176062336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6723/5742/files/kopafegewilos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2674/2421/files/the_wish_list_barbara_ann_kipfer.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_off00007652.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7652 5016 bytes
SHA-256: 1db6ff920157be728955c9a27ec7f65c9cff6a11ea2662229654e5fc56e58db6
font_01_sfnt_off00008758.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8758 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 6230295f06cf03f455bf6d008d496cd2e9bb46675bf08f125c0cf59edd4a0385