Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5e653acad602d6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.3 KB Created: 2020-07-26 10:51:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 927cc1d28817e6bdbe9973b5958356aa SHA-1: d0bc1f1720eee2df8ef2115f00049cc8ffd20a83 SHA-256: c5e653acad602d6f789a97a37f6046596e947c43c4711daf949fcb49fa6d6ac6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it directs users to a known malicious redirector. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates the presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, which are likely part of a link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.cc, which is used to redirect users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf.

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=assessing+listening+and+speaking+skills+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lakelouisebiblestudy.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696267/420322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gottatinkle.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813095/wudomozuxabugozazuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.legolasgoldens.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380308/sirusatuxedara-wuzubu.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/1/0431/8127/7352/files/43913415458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8962/5241/files/wepofumuresoxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4816/3738/files/85314527607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0433/8073/files/tilofawuxisixaxekopifax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3684/3933/files/wonupinowipuwudopevuxenon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3152/6557/files/nakuwasibesekiwefusibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2177/0657/files/gejizajulowuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6920/1832/files/76418378764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7400/9753/files/xupinijixokefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7353/5142/files/46767718867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1370/9730/files/99782356418.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_off000088cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88CB 4844 bytes
SHA-256: 58e04d5a8e5cb413879644563a287871d1efb3b0340e22c3d6013a4ea41993fa
font_01_sfnt_off0000994f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x994F 10148 bytes
SHA-256: 2ec957f2b7d081608f75f6f95cca9ef3ca32fcf1908bb8bc1faf3c757e5dd83e

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