Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 043ff62230314c73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-09 12:18:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e649ec354a2da03d4cdd7ad52a864b26 SHA-1: e7c718f4244b4889993afcb787313b5bf0dba9f7 SHA-256: 043ff62230314c73a3d84aebde02e9cb035e023ee4e3e43dd632fc1dffdc1854
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including a critical redirector link to 'ttraff.cc', suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malware or phish users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to downloading software, reinforcing the lure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of external links points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious infrastructure.

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=download+adobe+after+effects+tutorials+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.athertonymca.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740458/zavawuxoxezudokatik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuvum.bj-woodworks.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438477/fogoki-pesur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lenisewilliams.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483108/petisojodolixit_xafotetazotowi_vaganeval.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/1/0434/2602/1527/files/liwojewovinokarukin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9238/5700/files/jarotaminamavito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6823/3630/files/90370627551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2379/4337/files/bajofogigotufatuxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1461/8262/files/8085098352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1570/8573/files/46515955699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0854/0324/files/senememikuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7152/0414/files/average_of_list_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3407/4523/files/panekiwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7955/6504/files/careless_whisper_sax_sheet_music.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000061eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61EB 5380 bytes
SHA-256: 58dd523999524d20665780d7cfe569a337af0a78d4a39adf30043a4dc6d88c8d
font_01_sfnt_off0000745a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x745A 10164 bytes
SHA-256: a5fd41e9608cd9a9a4af65d557b0bb6a9105a1eaf846e55439ac08427cf8b4b7

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