Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca3ae0984551e167…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB Created: 2020-08-13 17:05:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 01c9084737cfbf3146f855c32c9b30a7 SHA-1: ccf60b853a3d45528bd713f93dff8e3117842c02 SHA-256: ca3ae0984551e167ebec89bf060e77dd5b7ac3c4e0d5e3195f7bebf8b7782845
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external sites. One critical heuristic firing indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=principles%20of%20naval%20architecture%20stability%20and%20strength%20pdf`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other Shopify-hosted PDF links, suggesting a link farm designed to lure 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=principles%20of%20naval%20architecture%20stability%20and%20strength%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://saxatos.game4myanmar.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739561/275048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosig.gaeunkim.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437987/renod-gejajubu-baforegeda-gugaratexebij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tesomik.chaddertontogether.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453133/fatapadajuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.holytrinityholmfirth.org.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874474/tujomagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.justinbendell.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775730/ece9c396f567.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/1/0430/5800/4117/files/90659053438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6938/2568/files/63945012903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xakuxosisubesabemobaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2970/7422/files/ridabubuworusaserasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7930/1275/files/99028257419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8867/4967/files/gofaxopini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8949/4177/files/litaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0873/6927/files/placenta_previa_williams.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6856/4380/files/pikolixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4801/8855/files/wiladewokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7505/2454/files/kuzanemepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0142/9662/files/kejotobujube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8340/6239/files/learn_english_basic_sentences.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
🗂 Part of campaign: justinbendell.com 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000048b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x48B6 5604 bytes
SHA-256: 1aaf88cad8ff418b1ae9d966a29a125ffa37e467db9dc67f518df00a36e6f835
font_01_sfnt_off00005bb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BB1 8612 bytes
SHA-256: d532b5fd8594267428c6397097a67d8f816c2113874bb0c7c587a2500bb2a0e9
font_02_sfnt_off000078d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78D4 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361