Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13e2702663b0bc34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.5 KB Created: 2020-08-05 23:12:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 11cb66a46c95ba6068315b69d81373f3 SHA-1: cea9260892946dad3926342dbcf8cdc2249ed6b1 SHA-256: 13e2702663b0bc344275b0f8b9347ce7fb077ce86594ad25091b9375c6a81efd
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains a mass of external links, many pointing to a redirector service, suggesting a phishing or scam campaign. The presence of a 'download button' lure and a link to 'ttraff.com' further supports this, indicating the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.com/pify?keyword=gate+agricultural+engineering+syllabus+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.cpathleticboosterclub.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969403/nirexudori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.moonbearkungfu.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813799/d6346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.libertytactical.solutions/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696104/vulisafudivisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nestlingtrust.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813135/xokodak_xisepeji_razeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.adamisbitsky.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380850/megogojavotiga_wezitumerovivad.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/1/0435/2137/6410/files/mutasujerotifulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6668/6617/files/14442652378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0790/0835/files/87296525648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5122/0120/files/54390185212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8439/8244/files/52405832462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7485/3793/files/xirezutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8421/0583/files/math_308_tamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4765/5323/files/bemuvokofalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6534/3133/files/43062192759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4041/6678/files/kemejutififevajopipun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5468/6620/files/18978204127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5766/7487/files/vuzawapobapifaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6473/7433/files/fipozazidagimelekego.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007d99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D99 5596 bytes
SHA-256: f87b8f0adc7d3781de0ad7f0da3411cb9488daedf9680d958fc99454dc985066
font_01_sfnt_off000090b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90B0 2320 bytes
SHA-256: 5e067315a2bd9524b6254977960f062bb129990ed69868068e29b4596197f3c8
font_02_sfnt_off00009b03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B03 10272 bytes
SHA-256: d861892776e92004f1685b62eae425e4e9ab323cc076077877c65cb2a0dc92ca
font_03_sfnt_off0000be64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE64 16224 bytes
SHA-256: a349519ccbdbca3d75704c2becf615ab37801eb1543272228454131dceb83acc