Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0dc0e26720d01ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.0 KB Created: 2020-08-14 18:19:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 9555447d85755db07831267b511e6d83 SHA-1: aefad0157be2903726db2259d24452a1e911b26a SHA-256: d0dc0e26720d01bafbed89c3a9a3f60a688527a3c511077df3d5434ffdd717d7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely intended to deliver a malicious payload. The document body and embedded artifacts suggest a lure related to 'pubg aimbot esp', indicating a social engineering tactic to entice users to click the malicious link. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure the final malicious destination.

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=pubg+aimbot+esp In PDF document text
    • http://files.sararosinsky.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739544/041fa27a3925f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rekera.maisienichollsphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606523/8644761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.southpauldingdc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383456/6199770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.earthelementnaturals.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776168/bd78948e0567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dopad.pilates-journey.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871674/fonememilujit.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/1/0438/6154/1014/files/guzakepusipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1673/9222/files/lumosedokapilibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5498/0505/files/80747225521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4506/8699/files/alcohol_screening_tools.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5486/5320/files/23471793192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9439/2485/files/classical_and_neo_classical_theory.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1103/0683/files/32605561256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8073/6151/files/vazinazaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6976/7842/files/tanatologia_articulos.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_off00008c32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C32 5152 bytes
SHA-256: 2ed0487a7ec1a289e2c0f296835e39c64cd9bc95728cdefc99757b9d7bbdd9a8
font_01_sfnt_off00009da5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DA5 13044 bytes
SHA-256: bfda13070cd176d7149ddb6bb9844e7ac4bcdd7dc31d772097458c301851f914

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