Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18dd96aa68d58ba3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-20 23:21:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a0c8afeb0347681cf697d1f3b2dab146 SHA-1: 8e1f1afdf34b1762bd5236e4a996aa6253eea826 SHA-256: 18dd96aa68d58ba3ccd5405273451cdd0b55019812b1bf1b25af2bd510e6e513
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is known to host malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=always+on+display+apk+for+samsung+a20', suggesting a lure for free software downloads. The presence of numerous SEO-optimized PDF links further indicates an attempt to distribute malicious content through deceptive means.

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=always+on+display+apk+for+samsung+a20 In PDF document text
    • http://fakigawiz.roam-beyond-home.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814500/takadunep_siwusof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ivfround.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382700/xipano_jiferirufelisej_jutoxagekipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.belongingcatholicconference4women.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382808/mulilevotoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://womutepuw.bcbpnyc.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969757/jadaxup_somosugejig_nesifiluledo.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/1/0437/6258/1658/files/babulal_nagarmal_satnalika_foundation_scholarship_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6428/7651/files/approaches_to_self_managed_learning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4988/6620/files/pdf_to_word_converter_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4090/6143/files/die_monster_mp3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0939/1261/files/wijolivafom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9078/7996/files/famubisaxifuguginido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2128/7080/files/77924902124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9143/5422/files/63687818066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6823/5682/files/81170285593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/7895/5687/files/melimidawibav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0470/7491/files/46984135582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6623/7852/files/duwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6123/9192/files/11038774933.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
🗂 Part of campaign: ivfround.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E02 5884 bytes
SHA-256: 9abcfa059a4856df08c1f8e274122d204d66a7811dcef9798f9c8690f97459cd
font_01_sfnt_off0000720f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x720F 10260 bytes
SHA-256: aaefed7e048461bcda2d2079ec1d566637874bfd0d873e7fffb12e536735ebb9