Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17b1451b8dfc7bbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.0 KB Created: 2020-08-08 00:14:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9af308f9ae57d82dd0d19e9588a4ac59 SHA-1: 53b1aca982c389771e9d15b2aeacb4ea9459d784 SHA-256: 17b1451b8dfc7bbc05c4343377a4c1a6d529f4f3e914aa3810dfaeef7276cc12
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=tsc+appraisal+form+pdf' is identified as a malicious redirector, likely leading to a phishing page. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'tsc appraisal form pdf', reinforcing the lure.

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=tsc+appraisal+form+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.bubbleytrinkets.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738823/2e674f4ea19c4e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ludame.hauntedmichigan.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738970/1d7f33.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.newlifedirectionsministries.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607404/jibexibuxevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thehammam.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775405/todavog_dipagid_pezes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vcaec.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858287/141951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5396/3678/files/medal_of_honor_airborne_patch_v1._1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2885/7503/files/80476350168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7732/8278/files/51829520878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3692/5342/files/gudejebexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4152/9762/files/10505444398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2479/3245/files/duzobexiledixebod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4738/6262/files/luxixikedopikerazato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2517/0595/files/18457147000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9144/3364/files/teenage_story_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9952/1181/files/negaxiwijibizaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4647/8759/files/dusewalesidovoxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3013/3406/files/24962208616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6245/1611/files/jumodewenodinebomubikej.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007026.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7026 4736 bytes
SHA-256: 6d75452d9977d5d8de98afee9d1c8e570c7db1420c14629b68b9da4aaac1d599
font_01_sfnt_off0000802b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x802B 10596 bytes
SHA-256: d74cdb58712dfe837b32821f8fbba1b093e346472e713886d3aaaedd1ab2fd8e
font_02_sfnt_off0000a440.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA440 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c