Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcb253d743be4b2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.1 KB Created: 2020-08-10 00:32:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 781ee4c862ba5c26b40e4ba20eb54b2d SHA-1: cbfbb9d0cc85ce5f544227bb8b43c00e4891be1e SHA-256: fcb253d743be4b2d7dd710580c7ea7d992c3096dab275bccea34f2351d98fd47
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a mass of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm designed to attract search engine traffic and potentially distribute malware or phish users. The presence of the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=pruebas+bioquimicas+bacterias+pdf' further supports this, as it points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body itself is largely unreadable due to encoding issues, but the embedded links are the primary indicators of malicious intent.

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=pruebas+bioquimicas+bacterias+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.3smallplatescatering.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815367/5254c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bindergenealogy.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695430/nabipajow-mubimefexuw-wapeweweniligoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.desireestokkel-nl.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380420/3029781.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/1/0428/7650/2175/files/86964701837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8385/7053/files/definition_of_scientific_research.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9925/0081/files/51032229078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8331/6891/files/toxekanudumeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1927/0301/files/25122414036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4703/3752/files/rutiritoxexofaripadububi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1687/0309/files/purukagezejabar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5452/8677/files/hr_executive_interview_questions_and_answers_for_freshers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7678/7107/files/83462532800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6769/5509/files/nakikiforirupabove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9698/1147/files/433929495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6980/6494/files/cancioneros_de_rock_para_guitarra.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1363/5226/files/hallelujah_paroles_franais.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0956/3045/files/hepatitis_c_diagnosis.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_off000067ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67FF 5536 bytes
SHA-256: fd0fa5d93719244816d1b7a990ad1469bea754f71b63deb5c19ee01ef02d553a
font_01_sfnt_off00007aad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AAD 15248 bytes
SHA-256: ba2be3a29a0a706f3d10c6e4dd834bb4fc15458e5881d02ba26f7171706cd37d