Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd22aaf934b4d982…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-08-09 03:49:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bb1ed2c8a13da9f4a81a68e46176e5b0 SHA-1: e11a5c3bb487eda0a826e5aae4f347c47ff1b2a7 SHA-256: bd22aaf934b4d9823a260a2db352968e157b648c9b46094f88cf488530477139
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=caracol+africano+en+colombia+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of numerous other PDF links, identified as a link farm, further supports the malicious intent of driving traffic to external sites. 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.cc/pify?keyword=caracol+africano+en+colombia+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.polarbands.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775432/6c252deb2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.libertyartandframing.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384436/karonapepebiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lifeenergypowers.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739895/6949354.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/1/0435/4909/8148/files/11253149211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4136/6951/files/4778611063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6550/0060/files/86659227895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/8984/9509/files/jamb_biology_syllabus_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2986/3323/files/15797167167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7446/2631/files/xijofunodofowas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9862/0569/files/12919095202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6770/3450/files/kexubagum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2582/3904/files/mepovizudama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2728/1558/files/jifadanof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6988/8920/files/lekawukodino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3337/0522/files/pemetogewetuje.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_off000073d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73D0 5168 bytes
SHA-256: bacd3af68468c92d90f3f28be50c08c77014bc081de7a5fff5e831720e3a5f1b
font_01_sfnt_off0000853f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x853F 11852 bytes
SHA-256: ef7af71f369d3458cb9a71e9229162ee37a7b4f931e367a75b2e87e0a7e87c97

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