Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb2b20fceca4b0e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.5 KB Created: 2020-08-20 07:28:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 700e74a56b58888db71b3550a7fdf1df SHA-1: 26a152210eb4b8f7bfba6309dd3f6c073f01614f SHA-256: cb2b20fceca4b0e59c2db5875fec2d666773bd9cc0c7e282617c1f0fdcfc78d1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=barlow+condensed+bold'. The document body also contains obfuscated text and references to the 'wkhtmltopdf' tool, suggesting it was programmatically generated. The presence of many external links, including one to a malicious redirector, indicates a probable attempt to lure users to malicious content or manipulate search engine results.

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/pify?keyword=barlow+condensed+bold In PDF document text
    • http://files.teachingkidstothrive.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856715/8596130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bimabilo.kibafreemanart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437508/vigawejurobenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buvisipo.kavkid.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070313/xupake_titeruteg_minojanenukuk_zebotaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.postplumbingheatingandair.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872298/67553204c47.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/1/0428/5222/1091/files/95059779127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1361/1413/files/poxoputevovoxikobifoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3535/0424/files/carbon_black_sensor_removal_tool.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8126/0440/files/xefakusegubosuzerape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6197/6994/files/dexemajin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1949/9682/files/99274690626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5591/3879/files/career_path_electronics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6182/1083/files/71202199622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9222/9797/files/60185027527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8499/5991/files/1602428898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/83260340608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6753/9623/files/zeretarefeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/suramagufumaxuragozud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/0452/7514/files/javatpoint_core_java_tutorial.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_off00006208.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6208 13968 bytes
SHA-256: 83e6c11f4d4c093b91417760ab57415e68a4fb4000b406963557b8f82330e051
font_01_sfnt_off00008f2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F2B 5216 bytes
SHA-256: 7186e571dcd9b43b50c784ee04552c87f24f636a715ec5d58f44e3e7674de4f6
font_02_sfnt_off0000a0fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0FE 13976 bytes
SHA-256: 9b8c40622a743a61d70a18566ed6c0e4346926bdc3f3b2849dbe1d33d5a07868