Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02845277c9e5d740…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2020-08-07 22:20:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a69755f83977693139be66ae6cea8d05 SHA-1: 56b5756bff77f491bad494223b1a4b18e73fe7b9 SHA-256: 02845277c9e5d740bf9bdfaf37dff7231faead9478c0d621cd53f0d19e08f4e2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a redirector link to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=define+housing+pdf'. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt, likely to trick users into downloading further malware or visiting a malicious site. The presence of numerous external PDF links also suggests SEO manipulation for traffic generation. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded links are the primary indicators of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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=define+housing+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mogullifeinc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383892/fonen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.amandagrahamlpc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815026/vefinozevefenajekeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.virtuallibrary.info/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775675/vovifoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2598/7734/files/lafomemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0137/9996/files/bezijobebomuxifigefuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1741/8405/files/prompton_state_park_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8484/1124/files/14233582907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dedijadexurusefux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3980/8922/files/90413825216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1144/4634/files/bisection_method_derivation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4693/5451/files/kujogubop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5543/0302/files/rajudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7289/6672/files/kirijafatotuzam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4061/2262/files/94698448108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6245/1611/files/advanced_inorganic_chemistry_lecture_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4090/5128/files/queen_bohemian_rhapsody_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1984/5277/files/amana_ptac_service_manual.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 9

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_011_off000116ba.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x116BA 18176 bytes
SHA-256: 9a53eb0f5d899206140142024e1329928d04523b9b037af6ea44b3d64dff0b7c
font_00_sfnt_off00007f93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F93 5684 bytes
SHA-256: d9df6945b54372b4ce1b038b385752c5e534dd56f39eb70cfae60a2504a527db
font_01_sfnt_off0000936f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x936F 4964 bytes
SHA-256: e8460fc70a297df58472331d9ee4481aa5ff59477b48fa113731784b3d56e899
font_02_sfnt_off0000a462.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA462 2656 bytes
SHA-256: dbaab8dcf32bfe64cb008f34eb54f5316f62236e8dffe3de49b44225404383a5
font_03_sfnt_off0000af66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF66 2328 bytes
SHA-256: 864cbe2c6973b44d2b71e19ffbffb2328dcb3759b07ceb43c11d5a372fc4956d
font_04_sfnt_off0000ba1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA1C 2108 bytes
SHA-256: d117309382da938f7dffedc42f90dd4217b4d540d75629b80669d975ecbc171e
font_05_sfnt_off0000c3e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3E8 10420 bytes
SHA-256: d3dc3c1cb0bbe779b8a272bcda9fbc940a9c9c0c1939556fcdbc8a989f0c9d08
font_06_sfnt_off0000e13c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE13C 18352 bytes
SHA-256: f653e2cffa139e346373a214593a71d57df7ae5d47440b264cff8802f94451f0
font_08_sfnt_off00013386.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13386 3276 bytes
SHA-256: c12c670e310cd2dd0f4b1ea6ea0d01ef35e1284caa1cfc967b978b02bd897c09