Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bf46398ae3505b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-10-12 03:57:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a133b9b4c6b87a7faa5f66fe8ea138a3 SHA-1: 25200675600119e6aaa7e27ab6e85fc79f15b094 SHA-256: 1bf46398ae3505b812016a243ffd17aa334fb2c8543b6d0b46816c3b4cedd084
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.club/pify?keyword=gizmo+embryo+development+answer+key'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, with 'https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0d4647af-ca99-4fc6-83a8-65eda31516e4/71138869386.pdf' being the first identified. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the same redirector URL and appears to be a lure for the user to click on the embedded links.

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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.club/pify?keyword=gizmo+embryo+development+answer+key In PDF document text
    • https://site-1039883.mozfiles.com/files/1039883/17743767257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1040360.mozfiles.com/files/1040360/36539170645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1042540.mozfiles.com/files/1042540/togewopad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1042419.mozfiles.com/files/1042419/16051457023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036840.mozfiles.com/files/1036840/18893402739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mybritelite.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606213/bcdcf6f2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.moorishnationpublicrecords.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776484/2242099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0d4647af-ca99-4fc6-83a8-65eda31516e4/71138869386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ca277f7f-95d4-456b-9cee-732651c0da63/57186792496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2783f7fb-070d-42e5-8c7a-df91d8b242e6/futezibowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/48eebd30-7580-4b7f-9fb7-ea2b418dfaed/98484885577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/68a3d29c-be83-464a-b915-64cf8ff0ff46/moxedegefafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3a3b6152-0d0b-457e-8050-8a3c4c74699a/92488526695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a2f0cc63-8483-4be1-87c9-2c53afc51ff3/35420550114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/537aec56-1116-443d-aa86-1df022bd3eb5/didozusugamujofak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/83264492-8560-44bd-b625-b07150939886/titefeseremuzurupu.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_off00006bdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BDC 5644 bytes
SHA-256: 0835319d1fddfecf06d2444278fc325cc609b741d7f743874c44b01fe6f42fdf
font_01_sfnt_off00007f27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F27 10128 bytes
SHA-256: 375c0c8e73bcc60b39acf1edcce62a53b1a2ac5621eb377c77b5ceb3c199015d