Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 044fbe97fdd29352…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.5 KB Created: 2020-08-09 10:31:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2b36cea4000b78d87e039b8d6f1a011e SHA-1: 63cace109ee0b6a59ac82cb109c2f1aa1b7b711e SHA-256: 044fbe97fdd2935279422e4378218714d8953547fa3f53fc8b67d88fdea13fe8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.cc) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to 'assignment problem in or pdf', and the presence of many external links indicates an attempt to manipulate search engine results or lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=assignment+problem+in+or+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.heathergeoffrey.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969357/monowekiputofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nipotigo.rtprogram.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969332/969889eb93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.country-charms.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437246/figotuvajigi_xagejogepetomiw_lidaz_wewazusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stanza2reason.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871643/43e7df268a9.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/1/0431/1125/2132/files/zewigalemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0586/8193/files/your_perfect_right.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0098/7801/files/fologakudura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6572/9429/files/satefolizilozub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4436/4710/files/90359533159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0905/4619/files/44442169108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/99324429390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0896/6312/files/67143971242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6212/2903/files/57901556552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0416/4257/files/catalogo_truper_2020_con_precios_descargar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9889/8592/files/galobap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7362/5500/files/59809915719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7016/8992/files/39389076547.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_off00007a59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A59 5068 bytes
SHA-256: b01f5658cb91230bfeb8899db0633c98c88003c8a51758bed6fcdd7ec67b61cc
font_01_sfnt_off00008b70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B70 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 4c25d85987e89331c75a077525664a6bca5172f63d2cf3bc8fccba08c32bfa5f
font_02_sfnt_off0000b065.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB065 16256 bytes
SHA-256: a5deb14ee7e45d3ec5bf0547e0e0004dd1e6c5607b863884e1c52f9ab632b63d
font_03_sfnt_off0000c5e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5E5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c