Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5921a2b9c41a705…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-10 06:38:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 814eb761962032cd24eb6a2ae565fe41 SHA-1: 19568e2b65d44c00cc59b9d4a556a0ef0d176ecf SHA-256: b5921a2b9c41a70566579ebee2f002a37e91603eb541c6e4714ac46c30744281
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains. One critical heuristic firing indicates a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains text related to 'Englisch Übungen' and 'arbeitsblätter pdf', suggesting a lure to disguise malicious links as educational material. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=englisch+%25C3%25BCbungen+uhrzeiten+klasse+5+arbeitsbl%25C3%25A4tter+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mejotede.nationalriskmanagementgroup.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740930/mokijim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konedek.impact-gymnastics.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408100/juxabiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belofaxog.westervilletherapy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482975/4729119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.whitemetalres.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740191/rezisorofakiku_wijusi_pegigonij_jobamodavufon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misukew.seasidedecorativepainters.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303382/fojolewikeb.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/1/0431/9258/2293/files/31912764167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4853/3142/files/xabezovufupajutef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0346/9221/files/7379718990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0204/4316/files/ruwazowibivema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2644/7525/files/second_law_of_thermodynamics_equation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/federal_water_pollution_control_act.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0864/5541/files/xekamokaxupak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0118/3384/files/34293925317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6515/5487/files/meningoencephalitis_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1848/4885/files/rimixepodidimovawojuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4993/4229/files/gikexabaruzagokaxibokada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7854/9665/files/68485522432.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_off00005a0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A0F 6108 bytes
SHA-256: 30ee1d923ff9f96bb463e15cbf203ee16100163c603682526fbc1624538e73ce
font_01_sfnt_off00006e19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E19 11316 bytes
SHA-256: 65f3cacee482763ea725495b5dd807015c0d9e26390298d20c59b38ba7d078c7