Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01039eb497bb39d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-09-22 06:15:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: be8b7ea37104d284992391445fe7008d SHA-1: dfb88d09c1d9a0cb271342317240a003dc25b5d4 SHA-256: 01039eb497bb39d62279303ca9d08e5272fc587c56c8487a16c92a265d1336a0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a malicious redirector. One prominent URL, 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=is+anything+really+possible', is flagged as malicious. The document also functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple PDF files hosted on filesusr.com, some of which are benign but others are unknown. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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.club/wix?keyword=is+anything+really+possible In PDF document text
    • http://kimob.identity-igif.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438800/449fae6f28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.arthow-to.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739772/worek-maviwi-tikizitev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zanemukog.g2barnhunt.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070487/goxerorirezubenudule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.relationalrewilding.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606818/8072294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://fe4b1f1d-e84b-4596-8072-4b63955cf75e.filesusr.com/ugd/b1b16e_4a24f2550f2a43d28ae7d414689a4a71.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7c8bfc6a-5158-4c43-a792-f6bb8122b648.filesusr.com/ugd/e50c99_e6418d7ccdd54010aeef84fd86b39645.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://90652be8-70d3-40be-bc87-8eb3da3c3aed.filesusr.com/ugd/eddc50_acdf7f110a964dfaaace01bf21d5d08c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7685/9557/files/ravensteins_laws_of_migration_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0482/7660/3044/files/gukunesakusojiguzawuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4853/3142/files/manedezesopiwebedugeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4829/6857/files/pubugubajagip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0482/7578/3842/files/dunmore_dmv_covid-19.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0190/5315/files/ribejolomubegemexesav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8206/3778/files/hd_wallpaper_little_krishna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0461/7119/files/free_index_card_template_microsoft_word.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8452/8281/files/asset_management_investment_process.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_off00006438.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6438 5260 bytes
SHA-256: 15ee8efd098549a11d9e724e7614d91755ecaed97ceab416b7af630dd63ec7e3
font_01_sfnt_off00007619.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7619 10276 bytes
SHA-256: c19b88123999dbad83134f59cf9945829c3d01e5c06f1d5aa33b526a859d2dc6