Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2d52d0028198e18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.8 KB Created: 2020-08-01 00:26:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d0ef39300994354f888d37b4cdcb3e95 SHA-1: 599cacf102f46e36b1f5cbf0327e9bdaf03b5b8d SHA-256: f2d52d0028198e18452e8a314d1726ac52c5c45e4222fb7e47705311e86c820b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are part of a link farm designed to appear as legitimate downloads. The primary malicious link, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=holes+by+louis+sachar+pdf, is identified as a redirector to known malicious infrastructure. This suggests the document is part of a phishing or scam campaign aiming to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

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=holes+by+louis+sachar+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.taketime2breathe.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437756/60d1f817db8b868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rankincreekcustomcycles.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407469/1246868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bibs2bags.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814680/7236707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.conversazioniconilventre.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406258/laxibinadali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pro-mx.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482962/lepezo_vositotuvil.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/1/0433/1195/6126/files/wonelofulisipejugilato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4921/2311/files/zimagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8292/3676/files/56455754377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1617/5263/files/66134278482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vunususojorimit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8402/9854/files/11782078755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5004/9448/files/34627443037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8367/7339/files/mabulorilaroxepuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7290/3585/files/38424669543.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_off0000a865.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA865 5444 bytes
SHA-256: 9cdd1517081576a4ed66797efe9d74403c08f05836863e32e138295386cd9597
font_01_sfnt_off0000bae5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAE5 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 624b489b6d09aaa93db017559e4a1d32a1adc12a2c0502b20f61c55baf71bd98