Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0feb09b05e9954d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-10 01:54:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bb1caef21dc288a71108ebfb4a6ab30f SHA-1: c20b7c12751da34eb7a822052774370e7e2811f8 SHA-256: 0feb09b05e9954d1a2711737d039cb18476ba3ffb941afa9364571e1554a2ba0
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to an SEO redirector, including one that impersonates a free PDF converter download. This redirector, 'ttraff.cc', is known to lead to malicious infrastructure. The document body and heuristics indicate a phishing lure designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

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=converter+pdf+to+kindle+format+free In PDF document text
    • http://xumex.vashonsheepdogclassic.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874329/jojoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.backlotcoffee.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775603/8211403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://negimovap.int-rec.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454065/7720080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.audaciousmonkey.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483128/8cc41aa33f7b343.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/1/0435/2658/6520/files/activate_windows_watermark_removal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7921/2959/files/livowizakim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9918/4551/files/medical_law_ethics_and_bioethics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3713/0914/files/katitez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1771/4334/files/emotional_intelligence_daniel_goleman_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0073/3596/files/jonalenumejab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1742/7352/files/adblock_ie_11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4649/3605/files/51523984860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3105/0915/files/bobcat_325_specifications.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/6037/5201/files/acing_contracts_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4372/4186/files/93131840736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8845/4559/files/9198526745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5026/0890/files/facebook_social_media_marketing_strategy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6820/3942/files/gimeriporinuwafasodojuk.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_off00006a66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A66 5040 bytes
SHA-256: f9614b3979354ddd6e2f7a8d20dd77c182223b52f540ff1c02ebdd48260c2fbe
font_01_sfnt_off00007b7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B7C 10144 bytes
SHA-256: 83459e86cec0539a0f71414b83a2431c3cd94c6503ac8a4f9eb7954d1849e8ea