Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 195992a5ac89db55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-06 11:04:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 771d1557beee8a4505c7e46cbdeaaad4 SHA-1: c9193820e0c347f3295a1fbb0e0ca99262438be2 SHA-256: 195992a5ac89db55e3a025d4d39aaf9105bda2e746402d5f5990d1f69c51750a
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, including one to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com. This redirector is used to funnel users to a link farm of other PDFs, likely as part of a social engineering or SEO-based phishing campaign. The 'ClickFix' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs users to execute commands, further supporting a malicious intent to trick users into compromising actions.

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.
  • ClickFix social engineering attack high SE_CLICKFIX
    Document instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal — consistent with ClickFix attacks that bypass macro restrictions by tricking users into running malicious commands directly
  • 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=basics+of+windows+10+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.empirepanj.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398093/niwamagewegar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rebuildingself.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874359/wenisububobiv_fewinutujo_nolozale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.greater-faith.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637055/felotoreme_sotixak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rareapparel.co/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381679/3072934.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/1/0432/7004/5864/files/34821421128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8705/9362/files/39450222243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5203/9324/files/alone_together_real_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6365/7119/files/resemeberurorejos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6482/8839/files/toxoladosewuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8164/5736/files/73136800829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/viborovikumowenaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2175/4787/files/91818119347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2398/3015/files/batilubifox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1708/3802/files/cd4017_aplicaciones.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3815/4653/files/5806380029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/8614/6712/files/glute_building_workout_plan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1320/9246/files/soraleboxaxuruz.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_off0000697b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x697B 5356 bytes
SHA-256: 0e8f10c2c9e920337f56b0f42a339695bfbf81df09a411c20f7d951d734f95e5
font_01_sfnt_off00007be4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BE4 10124 bytes
SHA-256: 473c39bbea06b6c23c389d4eb9c9e29611b0805ebc8f54d489ce7865d2459292