Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02e3bf73c68692e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-16 19:33:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 193d4fddd767e42778ae377c158795a6 SHA-1: 10cc8f891ba7b07f766b83f9826bd44300bba1ed SHA-256: 02e3bf73c68692e327bddd7759601d584986eb01a407e40a2f729f5eec03c7c1
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to email templates and download lures, consistent with a phishing or scam attempt. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=introduction+email+template+new+team In PDF document text
    • http://files.enfieldrefugeewelcome.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740234/ad6b7ce8eb8d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aatp-mysterygames.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775737/sujit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dvanminsel.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776249/1903589.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/1/0444/3809/3990/files/gujureje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0803/2922/files/saxutazokazizezelafel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6045/3785/files/90811012653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3469/8147/files/lomevujinevozimunetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0119/2352/files/mcq_answer_sheet_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5117/1478/files/whistleblower_complaint_full_text_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2650/4086/files/92141407820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1531/5351/files/css_title_case.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4697/7179/files/xezuzapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8070/2366/files/tegumudolekalodinijibiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9412/1379/files/pavidoxeliwomema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4556/0225/files/compaia_botanica_libro_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1984/5278/files/97694033987.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_off00007271.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7271 5072 bytes
SHA-256: e270cee1f2f516d2e22dfccb0407d0db001f31bac3024c04272747c03a84b788
font_01_sfnt_off000083a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83A0 10636 bytes
SHA-256: bf38a362f38bc31b1c23c01a0f454a8a674329c50c15dbecb98c099d2c5b4012