Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd5a5e323eef8f43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 16:28:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5d9c2a1f597d6e01286b14e4c2843811 SHA-1: a99b8e99af9a4fbc66e7ae71db12345f2708d1d4 SHA-256: bd5a5e323eef8f439a0b94a0c7b9bcefd064971a625b5ee6e507023075677802
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link pointing to traff.cc, which is known for distributing malware. The document also features a mass external PDF link farm, with many links hosted on cdn.shopify.com, likely to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly indicate a phishing or redirection attempt.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=vocabulary+words+related+to+education+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.pre-protein.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740174/4349104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xazafaz.adventuresinthird.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813528/potewobozudopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ronnieroseband.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813797/a7f99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vimpsatthehockey.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637038/108680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bopezap.windsorpoetryslam.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607600/kekegowegilinuwan.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/1/0432/9422/8630/files/35548188044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4052/9816/files/popejax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/58014629257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0704/9887/files/chilton_manual_online_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2561/3475/files/baslica_de_san_pedro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9657/8979/files/13891937477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7909/7758/files/mafiloduperewifij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0535/3889/files/vopawuwakogefubelitofije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6484/2647/files/17362975573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0128/2719/files/html_telephone_link.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8164/5736/files/puwatorirexironemixi.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_off00006b0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B0C 5448 bytes
SHA-256: ac00e6723fdfca8c3519b100435db0744199f41e69899ff73e84b5bc0a0fc8cc
font_01_sfnt_off00007dae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DAE 9868 bytes
SHA-256: aee8c6a039b412d7a03b372194094a27972d2feb33c97fb1fc2a795d68e69a40