Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09ef3cb05c07170d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 06:27:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4cc35d4f0d152b8d103e30556a5d25be SHA-1: 46e8480afcadd30d05eedae65d543676d7593777 SHA-256: 09ef3cb05c07170dd1d4add385e4ff746675658f57d74a969a57e0508cb69a44
194 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) disguised as a free download for an 'arduino course pdf'. This SEO-based link farm technique is often used for phishing or distributing malware. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful content.

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=arduino+course+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.brecksvillecogop.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775490/sugumizoj_nojetemogitix_jodewato_dozumafedob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.brandonautenmusic.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681033/2595696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theprofrocks.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857562/dapigevojinevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuzedala.soudersthirdgrade.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814017/5fdfce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wines.bigdaddywomack.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969742/xinedilenesikix_wosamuni.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/1/0440/6748/7894/files/jufopubup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0864/7580/files/romupatabigakomikugavek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3927/6707/files/samba_smb_conf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xogasetixudaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3792/5269/files/96526442388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4634/6658/files/gumuxujiwexavesawatop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5787/2038/files/fexigomadatigaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5161/3334/files/88812815048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/4274895189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9495/0556/files/vexigijozilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/6431/6319/files/beatriz_colomina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wunize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4960/7590/files/rebijemevufelaguvomeneted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2969/2577/files/letunulaviromu.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_off00006b5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B5C 4896 bytes
SHA-256: d5a4ec9215766ab4d0714116bdd657f5459a39c2f757c53164a023171132c4ec
font_01_sfnt_off00007c1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C1D 11364 bytes
SHA-256: ab01eae9cb59b99d88dd29078e70909dae8588cef52975eb572d05dcba9116ee