Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0be0649207caaf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-07-29 18:38:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: da85a6c609bc87d7687fa8cc7b4eb131 SHA-1: 60793a714d05e2b5565ab4c5622b29c1d5147ca9 SHA-256: d0be0649207caaf40aab1f52b1da38aaea4f4c8b78a5e1162bc7363d2533493d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a PDF link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=worksheet+on+possessive+nouns+pdf', points to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'worksheet on possessive nouns pdf', suggesting a lure.

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=worksheet+on+possessive+nouns+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.balerno-communitycouncil.org.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874411/9441481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lionsmarkcontracting.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681728/lazotomo_sijosi_fatupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.talking-feet.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813526/kipusakixow.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/1/0434/1373/3533/files/25569247294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0819/6767/files/wigesagorebujivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8381/7375/files/14460471333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zupapinited.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4021/9037/files/lokeripuwolasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1555/2674/files/13898108336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8389/0850/files/gukefamigomogol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1030/7749/files/95111259136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4949/1359/files/dusokataduwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9603/9839/files/40680096564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1810/0637/files/puminerimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4224/2709/files/zekupokuvibasorimigavibud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7821/1991/files/20418529844.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_off000066ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66BA 4904 bytes
SHA-256: af502a8f1496bd46c773fcedba659ab749c62d72e569f64333fe07d2001e2453
font_01_sfnt_off00007774.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7774 10156 bytes
SHA-256: 5c3077e6e7fc3632ff0b0f03669bfc08918262a4a8604331e8660a116f266249