Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcd7a291878fb7a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-07-29 23:55:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c10be86eddb9598142d058fd1a65e47f SHA-1: a402338a37623934cc9bd1d9b30129e7496cd87a SHA-256: dcd7a291878fb7a9cadeaa32ccf97eec70eb66995be66ea536b0502685e0a1d6
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a known malicious redirector (ttraff.com), indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'Comptine d'un autre ete piano pdf'. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also suggests a link farm SEO tactic to distribute malicious content.

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.
  • SEO-redirector lure link (multi-word utm_term) low PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the search-keyword gateway used by the 'free document download' phishing family. Surfaced as an IOC; on its own this is a low-confidence signal.
  • 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/wb?keyword=comptine%20d In PDF document text
    • http://files.onthemoveholistichealth.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814071/xixakaletuli_jinorofugule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bdonovanphoto.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738850/7271678de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.indianaliteracy.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410952/mubixosivevirag-lozesemenurog-nikuf-zobovizon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.damonwintermusic.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303045/zotetosumunefasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stwxstrategic.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071137/8006912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=comptine%20d'un%20autre%20ete%20piano%20pdfIn 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/1/0438/5443/0368/files/68737073954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/40948382406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5843/8039/files/57133756779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9103/3250/files/buridefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4864/8354/files/fimujuliwoxetunelinizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6482/8838/files/nigimivopunixubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3695/8104/files/mufamepopuwololaxegowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1384/0793/files/63123497297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rofan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4237/1741/files/95765844114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5921/6537/files/bakit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9110/7752/files/panejomerudemonakukojil.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_off00006250.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6250 4916 bytes
SHA-256: 57c870c493f25f9c2bb49d91548b4d5a84a214f580a26e47196d8f9d7fbb53e7
font_01_sfnt_off000072f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72F2 13880 bytes
SHA-256: 1c6efcf00c4d20248c3e0746becd508e37938ab4feaa3124c8eade9964837b60