Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 072fb4401fa04d3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2020-08-06 15:39:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 9664d9d5ccd512ed4ccc6d2d8ce9685c SHA-1: 3f97cc9b23415419295718a0d796ea7388de3903 SHA-256: 072fb4401fa04d3b03d8959327a33d917a06ad9bdc5cd26d51409c4c694e7d14
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.cc) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to the same malicious URL. This suggests the PDF is designed to lead users to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or malware delivery, masquerading as an academic resource.

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.cc/pify?keyword=amoeba+sisters+asexual+reproduction+answer+key+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.cgwoodcreations.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813325/7972307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.chatteriemainecoonroswell.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738806/6066150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.casinodealerswebsite.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383493/punakonol-visawadij-jusuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.musclecarsandclassiccruisers.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857756/kojakom-natajakuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.allsystemsgrow.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695578/2659090.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/1/0433/9856/1957/files/factors_influencing_academic_performance_of_students.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7338/8190/files/27018542082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4667/4336/files/bncc_2020_baixar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3826/7809/files/crochet_flower_pattern_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5308/8921/files/nubomipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5959/9765/files/liwarorusatigalanono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3196/9438/files/nexaxisorebadokirulukes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3273/1030/files/puzaroxikuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4653/5322/files/paul_bogard_let_there_be_dark.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1560/2337/files/19837548237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9480/1568/files/15567318693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5235/8042/files/luvinaxufuliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7418/2563/files/bangsamoro_organic_law_advantages_and_disadvantages.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_off0000d13c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD13C 5756 bytes
SHA-256: f49c6e28e6f3a329c5f16053e1bbb5aaf4b2982e55cd61b4248daef07306b30f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4D4 10120 bytes
SHA-256: 89baf7f641844ad7c4fcb00fcf3dcea90b595031d63e71ec949b6f8711f264de