Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb591aae975ce35b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.2 KB Created: 2020-09-07 11:47:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a2958420e4d88f0e43d141b7a9171666 SHA-1: 29131c6f4ea6de07944d4ae12e1ddefd39b7c1be SHA-256: fb591aae975ce35b9898564a1daa80408d5c72cc23806dd0ceb32a5749716e73
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, masquerading as a download for 'Acrobat pro dc trial'. One of these links, https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=acrobat+pro+dc++trial, points to a known malicious redirector. The document body is heavily obfuscated but contains the lure text and the malicious URL. The presence of numerous links and a malicious redirector indicates a phishing or social engineering attack.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.me/wix?keyword=acrobat+pro+dc++trial In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ccf468dcf2bc49ac84922b3fc48405da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f244d413efbd4490a8a22d3cdf270720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2274a7_b1223b02d602406c84c586f5fb43e0c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ed8107_ef2005769734441896730218fee5c497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b4609a_bae8686871fa40fdbe232209f5cc7471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6924eb_4b2ba484dea34fbca0020f716cef925c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fb41f9_857c6a890c6e4750ae9c98b3ab269ee8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a467d2_878c0177dabf4fe586716fd3a9f85cd7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f65175_a66babb060b444a98f8be4b374bd1264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/008e52_121c83eee91d423eb37eba2f247ace54.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/db80c5_e1fe25894c524371b72f4cd4f701ec1f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3463/0554/files/digestive_system_structure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9376/1956/files/likagawurewotupovepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0469/0444/3040/files/83952831816.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000749c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x749C 5236 bytes
SHA-256: 60a0da8404760875dc639e20ffb491823417469a2fb3a7687f1dfc2d799d8d80
font_01_sfnt_off00008706.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8706 5016 bytes
SHA-256: 8ebfffe4aa92809d85559774bd5c2664b056581a4c6d29004fdaa03bdb654dc4
font_02_sfnt_off00009821.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9821 10176 bytes
SHA-256: a29ab672b796ad4297c7b103b3778fc3abc6cdd7e781d7f6f5f87680ac4bce0e
font_03_sfnt_off0000bb39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB39 16488 bytes
SHA-256: b88c55219ef84bd2ff48a12f23060c6b86d25efbafe4a8493ce51f9ac91249ff