Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c00ba186d20df1cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-24 20:19:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 549af8bc5b3bcc118734e31286c4c217 SHA-1: 742dc0205acaf8af3161b013f268656f0f5782ff SHA-256: c00ba186d20df1cf5f531c08e2324bf9a89333fb6761db72ef8f766f3cc9ab4d
194 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, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=dell+hdmi+to+vga+adapter+driver'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which point to various subdomains, suggesting a broad distribution or SEO-poisoning tactic. 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=dell+hdmi+to+vga+adapter+driver In PDF document text
    • http://bofiv.suzannegassner.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382243/7162881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fevixusu.soundtrackmusic.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070374/zusopevelesemopojof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mujaxe.gwynnoutloud.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383679/sulubuduwijigovowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rantofaretailer.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856703/binofinatip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.msreeddanceclass.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813860/dakunit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4927/1975/files/2220565691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1368/4891/files/29798555222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4718/1718/files/information_about_bangalore_palace_in_kannada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1561/8203/files/10643749017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2812/7650/files/vuwilopatuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5164/6119/files/new_bollywood_award_show_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0115/9575/files/catholic_bible_history.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1969/7303/files/oxymoron._examples_in_literature.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6529/5526/files/gepolipewenigowobazupupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6630/2359/files/adobe_audition_free_32_bit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9925/0072/files/sotokaliteto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5588/1121/files/deficiencia_de_las_vitaminas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rirolor.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005b50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B50 4936 bytes
SHA-256: 3549ef84f82f326dbe94ed0fb8139c699374aded22f5b4b123f3545e81c295f7
font_01_sfnt_off00006c24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C24 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 4c13c15aeabea5885b34a0ddf368b3b2f9f5d03eb62c787e13f9521164961d57
font_02_sfnt_off0000901a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x901A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230