Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03af143361da42bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-09-15 14:00:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0f42078fedb875897465976827e37ebc SHA-1: 165bfcdcc15682ee8e40828ae42e9d1842bf135e SHA-256: 03af143361da42bb340655a62833764c6f5824d244a0a60b7c2f6594775f005e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDFs, many of which lead to redirector infrastructure. The primary redirector URL is 'https://ttraff.me/pify?keyword=abstract+language+poetry+definition', which is flagged as malicious. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt, likely disguised as a document download. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded links and the ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent.

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.me/pify?keyword=abstract+language+poetry+definition In PDF document text
    • http://files.toacarving.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384575/forezevufut-weloxiza-losiputoka-wexixasid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oberonmassage.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453252/7e825c12dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidez.roydays.info/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856543/vanakapexinefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c3f88d_077ead4b5e0342d6878da02ce8e5bb37.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a51aec_b91ee534a5b74bf39585701a7e7fa109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/735189_f1526e1185c745b193e3c8bb870bfaec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ab0441_56f2cbddca2b4667b4afb6460cb3dfe9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5360f8_0eaa59c56ed44a3db55d3ae0a8446320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e8dba5_e07555dd6ed841798c84fc27879d3bf6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9c8fb9_6bdc0956f9274ba1a3a7fdecabbd0d27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5b9365_f7a401b618bf44a8b008591674f17131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/866690_9c6ddecc7a3e40cba6af496c6a2d5a26.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/625844_315f9782574a429688ab7a84f96809b1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9374a7_3ae5fb7f6be1455d8166702c0edc9c51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4c1554_168f31c2ec974cba8687eaeec9aac6c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b48b60_ceec4f03c61345b88f5b204b91c0ee69.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_off00006cd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CD0 5552 bytes
SHA-256: 75e7196dfe22a29aa254538456a42d630593851f89d8df15041692e0cd466ee5
font_01_sfnt_off00007fc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FC5 10116 bytes
SHA-256: bbf8c21d0b8b9d4b818f6a84a9a08c32750c537f2e5e20727f200e40ab5a69b0