Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa201a901e36e51a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2020-08-19 02:41:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f85ea2d5536248ab6d92e397d814c7dd SHA-1: e324f467a211eff68ce5d74332cd36da0c4b1a15 SHA-256: fa201a901e36e51afe8d9bfed7dbf0279f36d08351f7c5d105346bd93f354350
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm and a malicious redirector URL, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'maniac netflix episode guide' and the malicious URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=maniac+netflix+episode+guide', suggesting a lure to a fake content page. The heuristic 'SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE' further supports this, describing a lottery or parcel scam. The file likely aims to redirect users to malicious infrastructure.

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=maniac+netflix+episode+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.rnrinc.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816096/c1dabaff6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3071/5295/files/real_football_game_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/65760981278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0649/2823/files/phantom_forces_aimbot_gui.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0255/2742/files/aakasamantha_prema_undi_naa_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3078/8758/files/17908114377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1020/1499/files/agile_software_development_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2757/0596/files/xusabowufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/45102141419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4319/0946/files/mesexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7418/2563/files/mighty_mouse_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6697/2577/files/kadotiditejilokizapijolad.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f2f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F9 5184 bytes
SHA-256: bbfcc037e021e58b22a56e77f22ea1add7aa7500207d2f187b05c3ff88fc7518
font_01_sfnt_off000104af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104AF 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 1b6882b25fb85415ae9fb2859bf7b7bdefc30c56aa5c66ad7cca1b0884c4dacb
font_02_sfnt_off00012910.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12910 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333

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