Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 021f3e4033354213…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.6 KB Created: 2020-09-18 06:28:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 406ac36524c0b6aede21a3bb297165a5 SHA-1: 3b68ef5e188443f434cae8ae2f1365c2ef7b8186 SHA-256: 021f3e403335421346fad33e95b6fcfdc9622a00d00e589c1e9d8168120e55b0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to redirector infrastructure. The primary redirector URL, https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=the+federal+court+system+worksheet+answers, is flagged as malicious and likely serves as a lure for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other links to potentially benign Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious activity within a larger 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.club/wix?keyword=the+federal+court+system+worksheet+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.guntersvillelionsclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438156/013ad0a11332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.iammonicaparker.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437276/6372939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jomiz.codyraycomposer.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437299/864c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://segar.k2physiotherapy.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776783/jaxosos-giwasaleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eckiddiecollege.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381881/maxijepujuwizas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pupatusa.howefarm.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131405997/jefidunuwesatejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.riveroflifechurchtrfmn.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381414/b9437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mdfoodtrucks.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379759/xirokanifu.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/1/0428/3393/6547/files/tudetudux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7857/2450/files/nezonifarovotazebalugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9726/0192/files/php_if_file_exist.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8057/2321/files/66190331915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9243/5359/files/97435229397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4425/7442/files/printable_wine_label_template_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8266/2553/files/geruwitinerujezejat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/7486/4550/files/fiwonetapo.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_off000047b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47B7 5468 bytes
SHA-256: 10a73309c5d43663b2be8d779184a20f61474c934bece281368b1714c5bddcd1
font_01_sfnt_off00005a3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A3E 9120 bytes
SHA-256: d19521f269d17cef2cd16f3a4fecc268c54a8753ec9484efc802eaa733930504