Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fea5f290877a52e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-19 20:24:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 422ffc205aa1fc2c5afaddb59c571a38 SHA-1: 2b2051ca0205cd1d937c2b9781127810a51b4433 SHA-256: fea5f290877a52e749d0b697c2baf6f8bbc5053d4e9e0eb02e3e4bc6a3d3cb5b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though corrupted, contains text suggesting an academic context, likely a lure. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=analyzing+data+mouse+experiment+answers, which is designed to redirect users to further malicious content.

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=analyzing+data+mouse+experiment+answers In PDF document text
    • http://sebaradi.carlapasqualini.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164394/benajekezituj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gotod.hausonthehill.pub/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383646/podixulitid_letetakuvum_sorexuva_donajofedajumom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sujixovax.joescornerniles.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871745/440f6a33032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.asttowing.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071295/163b2dd096fbe0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relulivi.danielshrigley.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712207/gofulomud_fisamoguzipa_fekevedozadavel.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/1/0436/6866/8569/files/behavioural_leadership_theory.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8358/6977/files/52372034775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4247/9007/files/make_file_size_smaller_in_acrobat_pro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9078/9027/files/fagetafibixajazefag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8582/4164/files/52406245036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4320/0929/files/regidukolebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6286/1730/files/place_picker_intent_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7252/0352/files/adventist_baptismal_vows.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8869/7761/files/aplastic_anemia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0712/2342/files/zupava.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000060ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60ED 5580 bytes
SHA-256: 3a23ac318b704188d860a9ec87ae07dce7389dfda7b8319fea81825d3605c66f
font_01_sfnt_off000073fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73FC 12048 bytes
SHA-256: 741360ce2ff50c1b99de4c8de1488e51b4974107a0bbd0affa0ca367b80f9d18
font_02_sfnt_off00009b02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B02 16092 bytes
SHA-256: e9fe716c2abc985b12a899a49d5539e4e8be1b56d50c083b30290d85a2a7c848