Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0dd2505e8cd2f471…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-05 12:30:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 22d787d8342b3a2588eee36f2373752e SHA-1: 8649d60e7a2101be16dd6ba397c98ff1ef0cd63a SHA-256: 0dd2505e8cd2f4710994b591f2e4eb6ffe17e277b0b48ea23aa73430d887566a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on what appears to be a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=breadboard+connection+tutorial+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document's structure and embedded links suggest a phishing or scam attempt to redirect users to potentially 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=breadboard+connection+tutorial+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.positivefocushawaii.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739517/sawuxaved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cozykidsembroidery.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409170/ninebafakafekip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.amesburyschoolcoalition.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739593/c02159ecdc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.saxenalab.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406785/1940361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.immaculataschool.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813317/feaac66b27ccab.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/1/0432/5025/3979/files/php_xml_to_array.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7627/9702/files/22648589605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7665/8087/files/91840433175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5455/4533/files/55810068581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1207/8243/files/60323358993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9536/7585/files/povap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3002/0247/files/25087237819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5528/4378/files/tovutimifurikes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2729/1544/files/4237153381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/niriliruvurufuwupaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7230/4805/files/daryl_williams_pff.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_off000066c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66C3 5160 bytes
SHA-256: ffecfa2920f4ebf0e2ea331b72ca36fe820439ca6683275b8544063b82a8a997
font_01_sfnt_off0000785a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x785A 10212 bytes
SHA-256: d8ad22d8562a631f35136b86dde00f9f3e397226909dee08d57baa5bb93b444a