Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c52c30b83a11c38d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.8 KB Created: 2020-08-16 12:47:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 561ee5c91fc2509b7503300497fe5980 SHA-1: 0fa5bfd35aca7dc3ba033f0b42b8318ac1b3c83e SHA-256: c52c30b83a11c38d6edb9fbd8ea6889baa8c3248d269c479bfcfa3a5221ba44e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it directs users to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=api+performance+monitoring+tools, which is also flagged as malicious. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates the document contains a large number of external links, likely to obscure the malicious redirector.

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=api+performance+monitoring+tools In PDF document text
    • http://files.missionscup.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857626/5284767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.monheganschool.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637774/3b740763f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.904pipes.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398214/rusaromubel-taselijafutij-xatuzibujujagov.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/1/0448/3910/8770/files/lspdfr_best_callout_mods.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2246/6720/files/49580206065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1228/2789/files/69287070246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1381/5966/files/zefen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3545/0774/files/70808270881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3298/4222/files/rudaledajibasejusiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7542/0835/files/jigiju.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
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Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008caa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CAA 5324 bytes
SHA-256: 19e6b8cc2c987d1ded990a483102ac3291cf575b964a03b20e71d2e0859e1004
font_01_sfnt_off00009ea3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9EA3 1800 bytes
SHA-256: daad3f347a4f42f432ee9983e619a7c063e36761dba5934b469418034847e28e
font_02_sfnt_off0000a731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA731 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 769362f9d1348ca828fd2c7ad000d5b72604aafbfc8248277d5520168b0712bc
font_03_sfnt_off0000cc23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC23 16284 bytes
SHA-256: 7603e3e57e6b1a92f5b3ca7a4d7066c4311a705263172e05f9cf7f27925f2f43

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