Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12fb9f42d5837fcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-07-31 02:39:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 48330ef2ed067a36aa888424a6b98d22 SHA-1: e0c49411b98b6daaaa0aab5a34f658422e5a4a35 SHA-256: 12fb9f42d5837fcd2367bb6f73ab4897e792ba705050d8bbc8fc11ba42bfc2ea
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The primary redirector URL is `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=aligner+orthodontics+book+pdf`, which is likely used to phish for credentials or deliver malware. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'Aligner orthodontics book pdf'. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links points to a phishing or content-luring attack.

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=aligner+orthodontics+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.top-tungsten.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680813/soruvozor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vintageindustriesinc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695663/kabobutidetos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.reikinaturalhealingus.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381078/nunesiludezejani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.annamhenderson.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739146/gekejinatafotuw-tosafi.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/1/0437/3915/2536/files/25004588296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3525/4171/files/kavenunenejarepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8130/9085/files/gewubavepepuvenaxipexuzux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9973/2633/files/58685054109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7135/7596/files/85350930050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7832/8224/files/56763828182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4353/6552/files/lapusixebubogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0417/4233/files/katapazepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3401/0015/files/vupevavofozuwizenew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7208/6423/files/64993114425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6401/6539/files/44190317848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0011/0999/files/dodis.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_off00006d4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D4A 5188 bytes
SHA-256: 9ad27536f7269568321821bbde3655ae4283ad0f52f72990b09b184f2b2f0912
font_01_sfnt_off00007edf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EDF 10728 bytes
SHA-256: bd8f38b0c8f25d2a284a2c929522146729bfd1e16c4e14eb539e61e3eefef2b5