Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd5ae53cc258e335…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.6 KB Created: 2020-08-09 11:52:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7a39b2092ee672ad081e93edc2f2a993 SHA-1: 32569270b130f32138bbb8555e32d351e3e0eae2 SHA-256: cd5ae53cc258e3350647230473e44ec31f9506fcc54562e98c47c4aa50b1055c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The embedded URL `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=business+management+dictionary+pdf` is a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, suggesting the primary intent is to trick the user into clicking the link. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=business+management+dictionary+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.bfiny.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740606/8347467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demabeb.paulmon-global.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874524/229c3b7b88d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kca-agtb.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969003/soxozadupolol.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/1/0438/0930/8829/files/vilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0722/7542/files/95493442003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/23158701460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9635/9580/files/87123873226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0733/6857/files/darofitosuviniweza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3871/9648/files/79396535232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1135/0439/files/git_installation_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/46905239833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4505/1797/files/wopulatupurametuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8651/9195/files/5251015243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3548/2517/files/aditya_hrudayam_stotram_in_oriya.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_off0000a683.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA683 5596 bytes
SHA-256: 7bfc900169bd4ece4e187c093c37eb6d51c03c564412fbd44d8c17104efd98fe
font_01_sfnt_off0000b97f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB97F 10576 bytes
SHA-256: d34436583d748961fd0df43b0ded327626744cd27a86ab9fa181f8b98c79dc9f

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