Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb0a56eacc11941a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-04 12:05:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: da2cf085491679287a1241165da6006d SHA-1: 25dc796dbd2c0f4cc19a12b396a07141ebd956e2 SHA-256: cb0a56eacc11941a6cc7bb7ae8af18457276d175b09450deac1184ec8c8ad97a
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector infrastructure. The primary malicious URL identified is `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=ejercicios+just+already+yet+pdf`, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The presence of a 'download button' lure and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support the malicious nature of this document. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious URL and benign-looking PDF links, likely part of an SEO link farm tactic.

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/pify?keyword=ejercicios+just+already+yet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.konajoanna.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816096/c9b5668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.schrockeducates.us/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874582/a3c5cd3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stfrancisrutherfordton.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453588/jeruxe.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/1/0437/8741/9806/files/27929375589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0677/8784/files/lebiviranuwipodewowijap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/24413790208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8278/4673/files/xubikufuwuwofugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2720/2205/files/reduzuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2077/8653/files/vudiwubebuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0905/6668/files/5967349813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9775/9648/files/notexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1427/3698/files/virabusumaxozameruna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9050/8960/files/gapafapobuwoseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4091/3046/files/xupexonufaforivoguxuz.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005c1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C1D 5284 bytes
SHA-256: 1763931d75a11028f401e1ca7fb06dca457e6f04ca9999f77b0efbef26502bcc
font_01_sfnt_off00006e34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E34 10120 bytes
SHA-256: 7fcc542e192caaced57b32abc92866246b098b8dc3525f6738aef8688e36ec62
font_02_sfnt_off00009120.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9120 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 028dbaa76d48ae99b02248bacea50134e27ed131f5dd39e25ac401de8961e19b