Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12d1bb29878a0862…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-28 05:38:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e5df742a76ab03fb71226451f7080c17 SHA-1: d45cd1157d007a0ad962aa9d90ed20ee10d0b4c6 SHA-256: 12d1bb29878a08627cbc868fe687fc9d0ba2a25468445fbb8c07ff903d4673d7
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to a malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is designed to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains URLs that appear to be part of a link farm, likely intended to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The presence of malformed exploit streams and ML classification further indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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=kendo+techniques+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pikotiveb.remotecmd.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874118/459f6d1b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.suncityprides.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681969/fepodarafowovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.matchboxgreetings.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856987/gojapolizobufewes.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2358/7736/files/96023926290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9654/7230/files/45929028840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8794/6143/files/ginojifotubat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5832/3865/files/mufero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/3918/7104/files/vue_template_html_element.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3605/5454/files/24398247283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3099/2280/files/79899097623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4620/5602/files/31137246079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5054/0964/files/wubovoxuzadukebivokol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2214/8003/files/zomoxakezez.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_off000071df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71DF 5000 bytes
SHA-256: ab65bf9b097f638cbe2385d4862889e0b2de9ba39dc39c651bed6c5ca98dd457
font_01_sfnt_off000082e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82E8 10052 bytes
SHA-256: bd9804545640b0b0b737abd22e0909409565b701cfd3713226a913080656eb1f