Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1140e32b61f802ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.2 KB Created: 2020-08-03 23:52:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b6ed7ffe5ec0576e8f0976cb471731dd SHA-1: c4473712c2643de46cec85a175c2757b2cdae188 SHA-256: 1140e32b61f802ee59617d0812a54931460559a5a520148f19d83dfd4a492aa4
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.cc) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text and URLs found in the heuristics, suggesting a phishing attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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/wb?keyword=madras%20university%20distance%20education%20mba%20question%20papers%20with%20answers%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.newlifeagspanishfort.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680974/rezoxilokebokozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lucianamagdalena.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681665/5178879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.leadershipembodimentasia.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696194/kabalawaloxefomubula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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/1/0430/6377/1293/files/budopen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0179/1132/files/linisufenojikok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5417/7183/files/zugojigabijinodevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2384/2983/files/robe_of_the_archmagi_pathfinder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9181/2771/files/petirer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2174/5822/files/socket_io_github.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1552/0935/files/68086652017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7495/3124/files/keihin_carburetor_manual_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5755/9190/files/gibevowitof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1960/7962/files/pezavovilufaxiziguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9328/7321/files/lipajedemuvegedixuluxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0143/0695/files/22627554399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3019/9966/files/nixaverofaviwe.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
stream_005_off00008433.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8433 13916 bytes
SHA-256: 9dd2de12fbdae8e24f0b6da8c605dfd127d42b1b0bcb2b07f7421ad53f07368e
font_00_sfnt_off00007035.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7035 5888 bytes
SHA-256: 94e61f94cf01a8e3294efc652a619a0efadb97cd209c8f9fc54e6fb73ba12907
font_02_sfnt_off0000a65c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA65C 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 56e41058fedf5a43a399284abf98711fed89d3b91ce4213ebff9b3bfc680c4ef