Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 033e48ed848c6e3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.6 KB Created: 2020-08-10 16:47:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 196a25786e92d2914db2a63bce2b23d4 SHA-1: 6e433778493970ce15d6aef0c9fc3eb3bd498add SHA-256: 033e48ed848c6e3e87b0d4bfc34b1d2b3bbe012e14aba3671f2aca0c392452c0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, masquerading as a vocabulary guide for IELTS speaking. The primary link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=vocabulary+for+ielts+speaking+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt, likely to lead users to malicious content or further phishing pages. The presence of many similar links suggests a link farm designed to improve SEO for malicious sites.

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.cc/pify?keyword=vocabulary+for+ielts+speaking+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.bryanaduley.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380786/1258063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.travis-wayne-goodsell.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070161/6283807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.philipellisconductor.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776490/sepixos-sepesapefunesu-xefow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.scuttsdrivingacademy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453990/vajalisolore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4945/0663/files/rezopufonumabum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3573/7764/files/5606389990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5650/5756/files/93227189572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/87899810879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4315/1272/files/ludizoxufibib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/rerivavegexem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0647/3886/files/suluwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6356/6755/files/ntsb_aircraft_accident_reports.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3685/9813/files/21126705344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dijovosulodomozov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6124/7138/files/67359385212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7898/4614/files/4766051859.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_off00007fdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FDC 5476 bytes
SHA-256: 88004d95cc5027fcfd877b835470b57dd7b382889bb2eb7f85ef35f507c9bf27
font_01_sfnt_off00009288.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9288 10260 bytes
SHA-256: c98e1c95783730d0d446f4ef906ed6f3e0b40b6e9f8c7ca70f5234aaa070bd69
font_02_sfnt_off0000b5ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5CA 16120 bytes
SHA-256: 53c3abcf66c58accd900cee7d40916a2ac5e58f51d938455de4a5c6ee6b2d221
font_03_sfnt_off0000cab9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAB9 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c