Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8be8c57bd2c2948…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-04 13:00:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a5c85cd25a7f294a5a563ccec42f34a1 SHA-1: 0fc979c11a0f413ca54f10c1ecc628f1b17a16b7 SHA-256: b8be8c57bd2c29483c12f0485fa71370a1ad5633a41d1dd2f29b7c5865334978
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.com, which appears to be used for redirection. The document body contains garbled text but includes the target URL, suggesting a lure related to 'preparazione al celi 3 b2 livello intermedio pdf'.

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=preparazione+al+celi+3+b2+livello+intermedio+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thephillykitty.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739480/wukuxigu-dibovuxewoju-zogew-xodozujakizag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jbphotography.studio/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775633/9662753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.experiencemoretolife.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381109/sofigigolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.onesquareworld.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453861/371a0e56ae26.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/1/0429/6772/8279/files/bumajanokibifujazibazere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8677/4436/files/66256752603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3713/0914/files/check_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6055/2085/files/getudokelesixasebipibuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3712/0933/files/54314857303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/9204741539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/16485275060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8360/4903/files/22114827178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9508/9559/files/12030087209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7342/8888/files/john_deere_rx75_service_manual_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1679/7857/files/23832225905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9954/6010/files/7320457776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5026/1911/files/viwupowubuxatesolobepa.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_off00005188.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5188 5668 bytes
SHA-256: 6de53a51d583a4478fc8b9ed891494e7f521966ab70ef7618cbb340be6ceb381
font_01_sfnt_off000064c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64C5 19252 bytes
SHA-256: 5344176b11aac56d0fa152a63bb3b65f0905d51df231d37f025e6c305f915bc6