Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23b7e627c6c0fa16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-07-12 04:45:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 54fd9170a717265a939eab59ef0e54c1 SHA-1: 7f7b66f382df8124324e72484a5ba2c4b45c55ad SHA-256: 23b7e627c6c0fa16c811ada9e29ea8a9baf9817d71559a783ea8a539630d245c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=16%20personalities%20infj%20advocate%20premium%20profile%20pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a PDF link farm heuristic further supports the malicious intent by showing a large number of external links, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the final malicious destination. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.cc/wb?keyword=16%20personalities%20infj%20advocate%20premium%20profile%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.allyawl.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406741/titururawipu_pivom_dewexep_suguradupowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.endeavoursporting.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776518/161606aa6ef1406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fnaq.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969944/nivubuluro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://kanebefoge.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/nidamoramimijebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zigadapojunu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/vimunipepebofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noginamopak.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/logimuduwujiletowixibaniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiligirili.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/8180074460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novebagi.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/84426617446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vawejala.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/sepilebimasedasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dajajotunur.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/janazusuwedolola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tixuwujeseva.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/12890409418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miselimex.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/53226173760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faxonitu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/11001937226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7673/0533/files/bilawesasonuzupapoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/39843759369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5816/7959/files/1643888345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/85947343199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/48675385277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fezusagofetivori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8807/7209/files/dopowubetulaninolejage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9875/0629/files/34474217269.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_off00006ad9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AD9 5428 bytes
SHA-256: e0173a3927b50ec774980fd04e017c6b24117b1539bc4172a56d5aeee6fe0aec
font_01_sfnt_off00007d35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D35 10040 bytes
SHA-256: dca8e302efa7212598c7892dc3701148e99687b241c846b77595a1797078cc18