Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d396e0e6540e684d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.9 KB Created: 2020-08-02 08:47:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 070b9c70c5ce51d74eea463b011b7e97 SHA-1: f903e4bf86ba8e7d4f8e97a3f25eff5d573c5d77 SHA-256: d396e0e6540e684d0dba5eca2c1f6c58c171be10c6b4c7534e9e74f99a1c5684
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a Caterpillar operators manual. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=caterpillar+operators+manual+pdf', is designed to lead users to further malicious content. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, to potentially obscure the malicious redirector.

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=caterpillar+operators+manual+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.greater-faith.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407148/pabegedogasikame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.7500magazine.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680784/2553904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.newstudiopreschool.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774993/c788908fe23db.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/1/0427/4854/3142/files/286681493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3404/8669/files/1210762406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4314/4355/files/xipobitevegenurifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0017/6544/files/wukinimasolej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3727/5813/files/ivory_hex_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7207/8499/files/webufesekulagedab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2977/3981/files/77352721785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0147/1388/files/90980173446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9246/7109/files/fenowepuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2323/5232/files/juliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4800/0927/files/zojiberanedateke.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_off00005b2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B2F 5092 bytes
SHA-256: 595be01444b52360fc19d1ec215eb6b60931f5e1c6598805296350ae94026165
font_01_sfnt_off00006c5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C5F 10168 bytes
SHA-256: 19ab4137cf30bf2c99685f6a870c931080f9ad8147129317376828ce3bc52d93

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