Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c032e42aefcb6cf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-08-11 04:48:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5f4afdded6bf84a3fc03286391e78a31 SHA-1: 9c2a5a7fbb943185c06773bd0009a8508b596977 SHA-256: c032e42aefcb6cf77b9c44060158869c9252a2b2b49c11e9a5c55aaffe79a4bf
202 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, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=code%20of%20ethics%20childcare%20australia%20pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, including one to 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/5362/3970/files/govupiraxivugovexidu.pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains these URLs, suggesting a lure to external malicious content. The presence of a visual download button heuristic further supports a social engineering attack pattern.

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/wb?keyword=code%20of%20ethics%20childcare%20australia%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.madhatterrestaurantandbakery.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775145/064c5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.panoramiccave.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814518/8127756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mayraaustinbusinesssolutions.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606923/4861224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunujir.revjeffmansfield.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606339/5779773cb688f3a.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/1/0452/5362/3970/files/govupiraxivugovexidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7930/2296/files/jozowezirujerelevelop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7696/0924/files/xulikepopatego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0485/4426/files/92628626636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8076/2023/files/23358445599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9575/2864/files/kupukidemexudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8863/4263/files/26587847086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9227/9460/files/bizebagezavude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6588/4323/files/kesunikob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5453/8658/files/82711438204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0655/7340/files/vofisoraruwuwujovixipusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7449/4369/files/59212752389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9707/9460/files/79729363222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7342/8890/files/lalanapepexivu.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_off000065fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65FD 5040 bytes
SHA-256: e37c26f570d46460b9c93487d8ffc5ce7485e0ece90e4729be0566d4c0114436
font_01_sfnt_off00007738.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7738 12528 bytes
SHA-256: ec99ea886938ffd3f06161ec4bea8e04d2c8839623f513ffbe4f379916b187cc
font_02_sfnt_off00009f09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F09 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230