Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca0d8ad1533d4d41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.6 KB Created: 2020-08-12 06:12:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 646aaa4c5ff5c4639bec9485dc4d0d0f SHA-1: 71d36cd7d40560b32b8e651a9e0e7eca33011400 SHA-256: ca0d8ad1533d4d4150d08d54aed10595b7083e82f0c5800f6578fff7c711b18b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external websites. One critical heuristic firing indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=philippine%20cultural%20anthropology%20pdf', which is flagged as malicious. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

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.com/wb?keyword=philippine%20cultural%20anthropology%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wanak.tlblade.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/3953803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.contracostachristianschools.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453998/2007720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kefenazi.taiwancarparts.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874038/1074585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://najoji.shirtkingzcustom.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/joseturatod-tetemumepatesat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuposubo.healthfreedomiowa.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738731/3248697.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/1/0438/5928/0022/files/lowes_dothan_al.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4852/5208/files/cours_sur_automate_programmable_industriel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5104/9370/files/vetusuboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5287/6455/files/20807319066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9515/3058/files/16760874858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6700/6364/files/93736165273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0820/4708/files/demonology_warlock_icy_veins.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7683/7785/files/vefamatotutofasogipefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2151/6449/files/4228993799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4433/8854/files/cellular_neural_networks_and_visual_computing_foundations_and_applications.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2874/1272/files/86551609676.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_off00004cff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CFF 5224 bytes
SHA-256: 26506846c09ab6df3c6527426ba37e4d46a94d7ac46cd4044d82d63951b74621
font_01_sfnt_off00005eb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EB3 9704 bytes
SHA-256: b7a27e9e135c71ede713057a34bb6126217b1463b8d7e7084bc3cbf9118441c2
font_02_sfnt_off00007f51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F51 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176