Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 018802fe6c6c4a3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

130.9 KB Created: 2020-08-11 23:20:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bc45a92921fad149b90f60d02b48c80b SHA-1: e6c8e79061f43d8fcae3acc350330d574d334e60 SHA-256: 018802fe6c6c4a3d0977e1856f6d81186e893410aa6d7dcb736dacf9dac5b61d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to redirector infrastructure, specifically identified as a link farm and a redirector for SEO phishing. The primary redirector URL is 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=oxford+classical+dictionary+abbreviations+pdf', which is designed to lure users with a fake download. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the observed redirection and link farm behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=oxford+classical+dictionary+abbreviations+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://limipaz.natomasschoolofmusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454012/cf4711fc94141f5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mattcameron949.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776054/4756696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.psuactsci.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406659/9954d0a2faa35.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/1/0430/9182/0711/files/25984979324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4464/9630/files/27081952271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8909/9938/files/fosotoxarobotukusex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2068/1377/files/the_canterbury_tales_modern_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7152/7325/files/kivur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4143/8366/files/87292196450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9453/9429/files/konuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1705/2066/files/83194518832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7547/7405/files/razezezizaneketubupumekud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5560/4134/files/topuvaripelisulew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1724/6632/files/tamuvokomufuzujavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7935/8869/files/12104230786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9232/7077/files/rogoxunutazutidepuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9110/7742/files/kozilubugukerevojuwada.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_off0001910d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1910D 2868 bytes
SHA-256: b41bea1b6452f752dbfebed22a84b2b90fbc40f7202eadc28c3945cc57bd146b
font_01_sfnt_off00019b40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19B40 5548 bytes
SHA-256: 8b839d33029fe6f04c6f83f9be23d4192b8a8b4d29cf0c9500457298295f13c8
font_02_sfnt_off0001ae39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AE39 20404 bytes
SHA-256: 44d59505aeca8acfcbb0644808e75223826716a910a4d2bc0767e9a58a41b28a
font_03_sfnt_off0001e793.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E793 16204 bytes
SHA-256: a95eff378c135b1ab40d10b3cd1da1bafbc07f86005f57898d079c90d712ddbd