Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15705b61e54f65e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.6 KB Created: 2020-08-09 14:53:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4de5b85d99868daa05fe0ebe836875ff SHA-1: 68b80e9f22bccfc28a4f06266afa4349cba04e8e SHA-256: 15705b61e54f65e620db7981d83fa49b26907c098c3b856708dbbcc726dd8231
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. The document body and heuristics indicate a lure for free downloads, specifically mentioning 'ielts band 9 academic writing task 2 pdf', which is likely a pretext to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=get+ielts+band+9+academic+writing+task+2+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.harrisvillenatureclub.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696280/8713339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wingwoodfarm.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407164/wagigugodojas-powujiputafonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thechilitrail.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741476/9444799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.apartmentstenerife.ie/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164152/dipevugif_fexuzodexujuta_kexifezuzawadup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delafetu.freeyourmindaz.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/rugizi_wekoz.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/1/0435/2838/8772/files/square_root_of_65.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0319/9138/files/51885882163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3663/8360/files/forbidden_woods_map_bloodborne.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5080/2081/files/fatulopunuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2547/1400/files/50578419864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2764/5095/files/24689843437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3477/9553/files/butler_volmer_equation_derivation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/83390791822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0016/7589/files/phn_mm_chuyn_t_file_sang_file_nh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6999/7207/files/96322668486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5481/6667/files/jacquees_me_patron_and_you.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/59677855830.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000645f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x645F 6088 bytes
SHA-256: 17501a81bc91fdd7b0641587245a4f3af50ee90f134da4dfeb4f6d9dcf88987f
font_01_sfnt_off0000791a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x791A 11296 bytes
SHA-256: 7d70e0431965c3b9c445945b369157b2a744ba03c5c291200b5496b9ce714cf4
font_02_sfnt_off00009e14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E14 16448 bytes
SHA-256: 4d0b7fceb6e0b8544dba10d314310d86ee7e0ac375a8e3b5fd915ca5fa71995c