Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 010bd035b238c321…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-11 09:46:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8b72757fa69387bade25045e437640f8 SHA-1: 2ffe5893a34c218687a9c2ef0001a5f6dde9d020 SHA-256: 010bd035b238c3211f1b71baed38f76b4075cc4b200579cbbd7c009a66ae282a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to a redirector service that is known to host malicious content. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=anesthesia+drugs+chart+pdf, which is designed to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The presence of a large number of external PDF links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute malware through a link farm.

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=anesthesia+drugs+chart+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.easternfronttheatre.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776141/vinidirar-jeruwexo-nagijujiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.exploremuncie.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740204/zusinuzadugosapasef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fezuse.conniemorey.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/kabujivexej-panobokena-musaradezusuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.freshperspectivenews.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383934/widitogox_lanaxewugabewa_pofuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jijefoxaw.northernlightsadaptations.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438216/1f4342dd741.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/1/0427/7485/5846/files/buzotedupow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0528/8352/files/56069815501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4876/2529/files/que_es_la_equidad_de_genero_en_mexico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9023/1974/files/phonics_2nd_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9297/4499/files/baby_net_worth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nalajenoderemomepofelefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7193/8461/files/tapaguxopujize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5857/7046/files/rojamolojuwomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2103/2859/files/87401208282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5861/6733/files/bonobine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5945/3860/files/gefoxalokoxasowazawetomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7993/1806/files/aberdeenshire_school_holidays_2020.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_off000062e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62E3 5372 bytes
SHA-256: 1e1ecbcb3a2fa6af836e6fadb0f7752087f992a9637cdbb3cc17ac87a43d3b50
font_01_sfnt_off00007519.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7519 11616 bytes
SHA-256: 060bb27a0ace4ba5a5e760b93fcac6997e4cc51a9184c2ac6609178d657c4376