Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0a6e6fd3c2259d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 14:11:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 48adb3f7ecd88c96baddb08bb88cf959 SHA-1: 13835c720bfbd72d9a2bbfa028815028e18ebeec SHA-256: e0a6e6fd3c2259d8ed58899c790c0928f327b973c493b00b5e226e66d239a60d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=10+benefits+of+reading+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document's structure suggests it is designed to act as a link farm, potentially leading users to malicious content or phishing sites through the 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.com/pify?keyword=10+benefits+of+reading+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.uovooo.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739718/wububedolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.turquoisebalance.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969220/nimabufapafutuzevus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sweetnlowdachshund.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437444/5c4356755f0a.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kekesapenogetiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1378/2173/files/pieces_lyrics_and_chords.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6350/1222/files/48366365197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6015/8873/files/sugar_beans_farming_in_zimbabwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/test_1879eb6a-339e-4d45-a409-571cd94a4742.pdf?v=1594212285In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4832/8603/files/kamawurimugimagadinowoxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8704/3496/files/gused.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0936/6427/files/estrategias_antienvejecimiento.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0693/4688/files/birudawawudofekoferiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2858/4347/files/6272170379.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_off000063e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63E0 5416 bytes
SHA-256: b94a5d312f36263abaf7e16fe01b418ba444c431c0c5767566ad45ff2b5d9fa5
font_01_sfnt_off00007657.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7657 10088 bytes
SHA-256: e511bc55194661c6699d29d868df07e1e0971e996d967ef6db701b198c87226e