Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1662a6bfe5a603b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-06 15:35:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fd81d1ea8e6f1e5f3ece44da0aadd826 SHA-1: 6ce826bcfce69dea44071ac46abb8a142b28e076 SHA-256: 1662a6bfe5a603b156446166731f2de81c6367e43b1e09c74da41e04f6a7e881
194 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, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=definition+of+mass+communication+by+different+authors+pdf, which is flagged as malicious. The document body also contains this URL, suggesting the intent is to trick users into clicking it for a supposed free download, leading them to malicious infrastructure.

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=definition+of+mass+communication+by+different+authors+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.abbyvasek.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874667/9057367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemosal.thedentalsmilecentre.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380429/nufijufetifajozazazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.personalspaceproject.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740343/piwepapefa-kavijabojexopi-fuwuwumewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.richpmurphy.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814042/zesefotul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piwevad.tateliberaswanson.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775387/dovemoxosurak.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/1/0437/6556/3549/files/pifonavefibutejasejad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9360/6046/files/round_avery_labels.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0844/8922/files/sports_card_price_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6874/2040/files/mick_goodrick.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0533/0083/files/gebezipipovigewelesog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/89186344985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1678/0956/files/preschool_classroom_management_150_teacher_tested_techniques.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2530/9604/files/37781590596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5506/2938/files/51448862763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9445/0078/files/how_to_update_chrome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rinavupomun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9040/1687/files/65645591747.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_off0000616d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x616D 5604 bytes
SHA-256: 4b61ec3edb7efda5d5dfcf16469a04a0ebb069923bfa8af2caf7c7ae2ab3b555
font_01_sfnt_off00007459.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7459 10112 bytes
SHA-256: 80f686602f5a4264146858c5a7b4bb4fe2d7a14a93240d74661505990ac67cd7