Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12743513e3eb3baf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-08-03 16:33:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fb1278a5a0ec9db08a4f0d3834146549 SHA-1: 378b8eb17c307b411bc86ef6abae919ee6a76497 SHA-256: 12743513e3eb3baf9865714b84339aa9fc98956a19443319f6795d73f50166d2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links to external PDFs, presented as tutorials, which is indicative of an SEO link farm or phishing lure. The primary redirector URL, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=creo+parametric+4.+0+tutorial+roger+toogood+pdf, is flagged as malicious. The document's structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to drive traffic to malicious or deceptive content, likely for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

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=creo+parametric+4.+0+tutorial+roger+toogood+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mavaleto.yoloinbiology.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070718/4517138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sriyantrawatch.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740625/3341927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.relationshipsartcollection.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164358/fareb-xotix.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/1/0431/7764/0092/files/7121967337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3641/6936/files/wuzatedof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3864/4123/files/xumesobidarigozixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2318/7614/files/moboriwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0131/4454/files/jivoxorade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9639/2348/files/weezer_say_it_ain_t_so_chords.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7274/8709/files/miwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4646/9793/files/12761316320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2117/2897/files/3030499580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1121/1425/files/vufemibatebuzag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5470/3526/files/gapubivi.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_off00005754.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5754 5464 bytes
SHA-256: d47504b7df56f2eb92e3d98715521159e6e7326db64b22acbc866ae901f897cc
font_01_sfnt_off000069df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69DF 12148 bytes
SHA-256: 0884938882683f172ffe5abe225905c24b12a30ced7c5a4a4b4e14850e9d25b1