Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10015f277cca10f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.8 KB Created: 2020-08-20 22:13:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f1a0a7c2bba6342ef59ba8c93b241262 SHA-1: 3f485899130460d0e36ee2dc4786f3ae1094bad1 SHA-256: 10015f277cca10f71114be00c5e5269bbfe8d8eee820285ae6fa46248b708aff
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating it's a malicious redirector and a credential phishing lure impersonating Microsoft. The embedded link, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=despotism+3k+event+guide, is identified as a malicious redirector and a credential phishing link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, reinforcing the phishing attempt. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=despotism+3k+event+guide.
  • 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=despotism+3k+event+guide In PDF document text
    • http://levaziw.br3h.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775607/3803376.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/1/0434/4145/5254/files/activated_carbon_filter_for_wastewater_treatment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2703/8359/files/85774847849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4482/3452/files/story_elements_organizer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8062/0963/files/30421520101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2405/1358/files/pyrexia_treatment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2086/files/craft_beer_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0028/0726/files/kindle_read_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8371/9071/files/67736988659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0558/9157/files/sinafexibebejogixudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4098/7543/files/8414711944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3988/2402/files/grande_ecole_movie_parents_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9657/8979/files/class_11th_ncert_biology_book_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8638/1210/files/41818095107.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00016a5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A5F 4376 bytes
SHA-256: 95a650bd02751142985ddb3d68c82f94098ceeae50f8cb0e89f9ac1c60778540
font_01_sfnt_off000179cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x179CB 5228 bytes
SHA-256: f533b448df88daab38ae8e1e16d92be0d00bc62b57b9bb68e4ab17ad1539d462
font_02_sfnt_off00018b9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18B9A 13640 bytes
SHA-256: 023076223aab09e1b7622afc2b5b5e5cd39cd442f1bcdc95dd5050f10681e1ef