Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa93cee678f72752…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-24 16:24:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ce43f425e7f8234a24df3d35fad44a61 SHA-1: 2b0ae0c95e12d7a8557dcff7a5808095f219df4b SHA-256: fa93cee678f727525af15fd086cf1e673f0b31d865cd9b7f2c8fb8c5c319206c
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains numerous links to redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=android+sdk+manager+install`, which is flagged as malicious. The heuristic `SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE` indicates the document's content is designed to trick users into installing software. While no scripts were extracted, the embedded URLs and the nature of the lure suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely using a social engineering pretext to achieve initial access.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=android+sdk+manager+install In PDF document text
    • http://zevuga.nomeatmarch.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776433/5845651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gaborbacsi.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739601/xofikitow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://butef.netherhaughfarm.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/1797680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tisozoxu.setthestagecostumesprops.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070357/mosudilezo.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/1/0431/4071/0562/files/30404464264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1112/1057/files/25098511675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9119/8112/files/chinese_to_english_phrases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3851/5098/files/27554701031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3127/3365/files/97246925398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3620/3415/files/motuzuzesapepinagabemewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4628/1122/files/64881679922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5667/7543/files/synonyms_and_antonyms_of_words_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0197/0837/files/rearrange_pages_in_document.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7795/7800/files/tivaxejavikumino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8145/0147/files/19339807448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5161/3334/files/gidakoxudosurejadez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4016/2467/files/refraction_and_reflection.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_off00006a26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A26 5200 bytes
SHA-256: ee3dcd048675b24bc8bb3a3043845c11e66e121500f6ee15c16ecfbf03afb121
font_01_sfnt_off00007bba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BBA 10060 bytes
SHA-256: f9ea0f61e8cdf3715e0917cf59a8da595f3b02600142ea3d024d34d57772d0b1