Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 078e3297126ef688…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.1 KB Created: 2020-08-15 04:49:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0521c6ab74c0b35b785e8d90134d864d SHA-1: cedd2c6edebec058611a8bf046410c465dcde0de SHA-256: 078e3297126ef688d125ffafb5d0e12a7a9b419d62a9f9e011b871f5a61ba3b0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a lure related to 'Today's crossword puzzle answers' and embeds multiple links. One of these links, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=today%2527+s+crossword+puzzle+answers, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document's structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to trick users into visiting a malicious website, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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.com/pify?keyword=today%2527+s+crossword+puzzle+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.tncommunitycorrections.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871894/9902773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.whyrunnow.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302963/temodadera-xusigisivomi-zipoguxadegup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.taeyongpark.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969012/biwonedutitutilomize.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/1/0430/1117/8649/files/41673507036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4368/2469/files/bebitod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/3605/2389/files/acting_out_culture_2nd_edition_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4693/5451/files/xamadabetutefegujosowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7939/1646/files/famukafudujuzaneset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2492/5347/files/tevanujofixosobijopafur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9529/4109/files/asterios_polyp_portugues.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9578/4600/files/bumowiwurojutewokanexuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8702/8641/files/mapupomejunaligabiveba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6617/1293/files/xurifutuvexejaxorofavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7180/6366/files/bingo_sheet.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_off00005ca0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CA0 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 5b942944f41f03e90f4c1eeda857af95083aa8d7cf447a92ff455d1e80432f35
font_01_sfnt_off00006edc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EDC 9628 bytes
SHA-256: 678eed8ea8cf38c12ec94da359099fb2312dd0832738d676715b2f4800380732

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