Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22c240aef1d67c95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-15 06:06:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4ba84ebf039ec214d840b3d8ca8321f0 SHA-1: 6a83b7363cf7bea1295b9986b7e6467db9c7bfc3 SHA-256: 22c240aef1d67c95d601517260361e8e7d77fd4fab9ad15951dcc1ceb8fee3b5
202 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 (ttraff.cc) and a large number of other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO abuse for phishing. The heuristic 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' indicates the document body attempts to mimic an invoice or payment request. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score support a malicious classification. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL used to obscure the final destination.

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=kra+cgt+guidelines In PDF document text
    • http://files.nwraincreations.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856347/bojevazas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puxifed.drbriancasteels.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/7041148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.apoiesis.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775505/nukupolusefovas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.morriswomansclub.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382673/1103552.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/1/0441/4128/1432/files/aircrack_ng_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8210/4478/files/puzorazimesiziberunawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1382/4927/files/2000_ford_taurus_owner_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6381/3020/files/35571764398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9345/8070/files/banasijezulinivugusit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6432/6309/files/28184082101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0940/0214/files/debojugesuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3543/3882/files/native_american_flute_making.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/36920421444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9639/9269/files/admin_staff_job_description.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0192/1184/files/tivofokinaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1543/0559/files/vector_of_arrays.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9915/1768/files/56740504636.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_off00006202.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6202 5076 bytes
SHA-256: 41ed53c47cd18e4013527404ddb886d100fce323f7d9f35f9bfdd040535cd114
font_01_sfnt_off0000734f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x734F 10352 bytes
SHA-256: b6b710309779d0df157a1b9a1afba222feaa64dda2b5538afd3293d936b0a71a