Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1180be1e5e28e397…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.5 KB Created: 2020-08-10 05:15:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 432baaaf6c356a6de6ccdf750c4b8e5e SHA-1: f9f4b91e758c9dad06995a44d3e09c00f6465c63 SHA-256: 1180be1e5e28e397bc1ee017ea193ca5f2c50f9ef45d90a91bf8666b090adc51
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirection and a link farm, pointing to a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The embedded URLs, particularly the one leading to 'ttraff.com', are flagged as malicious redirectors. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious URL and other PDF links, reinforcing the attack pattern.

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.com/pify?keyword=insuficiencia+renal+clasificacion+akin+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.hourglassfitnessclub.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740949/mexizekuzevowaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ragigofe.upandovered.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453060/xabomoxufivukititik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.umcaccountingsociety.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382330/0c8be2bc2.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/1/0432/6686/7362/files/importance_de_l_agriculture_biologique.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6629/3401/files/kurunigekalerifisasovawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9790/6589/files/mufipajovijokos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3699/0885/files/puneza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4092/4063/files/mythology_of_the_titans_vanilla.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0570/1284/files/animals_name_with_images.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9242/5384/files/jefotetivitujakixalupiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6999/7207/files/xorumiluvopimal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4642/8059/files/91297142094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4927/1975/files/90260761962.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_off0000960a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x960A 5148 bytes
SHA-256: 85fd8a19aabc25af5837bbdfb1d9f0d1f4da64892f44a615058550db16cacc4e
font_01_sfnt_off0000a7a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA7A3 14572 bytes
SHA-256: 82daafcc7b6d737eb7296f3c8c3844e302fe982361f3be087c8959194ebeb430