Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d02eb0525286a3af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-21 02:44:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8aa52968205178c7b82364ba05d30186 SHA-1: 770e4429be14082624dc92a10e2573a04323b850 SHA-256: d02eb0525286a3afb351d18437a4293ec47aecda6547b3b131342bd4d427015e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of external links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=rediker+admin+plus, which is likely used to redirect users to harmful sites. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf.

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=rediker+admin+plus In PDF document text
    • http://vukasefap.super-sounds.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969280/4124705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.booksbymarilyn.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438741/kipuzonumobalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.board.solonchamber.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163859/rabojofavafupozakebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tanyathehomestylegourmet.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969429/tisesofunup.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/1/0438/4705/7568/files/bapufigenezudipugefawis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8087/4139/files/muscle_anatomy_bodybuilding.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wixet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/3323/9192/files/zirara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4101/2374/files/31095462503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6297/6921/files/binodepoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0458/5488/3993/files/reformer_catalyst_regeneration_process.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0163/3177/files/saxararosemusuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7281/3211/files/netotif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6345/8457/files/alice_miller_libros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6579/4969/files/accounts_receivable_journal_entries_in_sap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2002/4989/files/91882971891.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000064e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64E9 5176 bytes
SHA-256: 7450cd32aa5dea2946783e2ca6844b5822189b47e7d6bdbc791f9c868b7ceb01
font_01_sfnt_off00007669.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7669 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 3c3bf832872d317317f19fcb44bad805f55eae6af580e02f2189e926ed616294