Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 275a29619485d32b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-10 06:57:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c16f9cdc17646a601c377821fed7a7a5 SHA-1: 342a0e43a7745043b1fd13e5bf4399eb4a29809f SHA-256: 275a29619485d32bdf8befffa3702fb7b49bea81ff65241da56b3d4f885b3783
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=reliability+analysis+book+pdf'. It also contains a high heuristic for visible LOLBin command execution instructions, indicating potential for script execution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious URL and numerous other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. The primary intent appears to be redirecting the user to malicious infrastructure via the embedded link.

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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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=reliability+analysis+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.joedonovanboxing.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815123/vaduzorakatuwibeluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gabicurless.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303373/3095314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazukadit.maxmihm.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/32e4280e5f968d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.claddaghcoachconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411896/3699771.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://roguzota.allegrodancemusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969204/1903123.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/1/0432/7673/0533/files/xojisobirezogebusoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3776/9383/files/60499292523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1715/9335/files/komenej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5254/5701/files/download_csv_from_github.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5676/6882/files/pijagutepedog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4651/0504/files/super_mario_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/87960197539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8475/9711/files/35765934570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4667/4337/files/28468108011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3708/2271/files/bolizupofov.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_off000060fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60FA 5252 bytes
SHA-256: 97f6088618dc8bd60472225530e842577acae3555315a71d8b84125029211d82
font_01_sfnt_off000072fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72FA 10148 bytes
SHA-256: d0bbf3d857c8bf6c13af980d97835713ccaa91a17cdd80201b5c7a06f58f0be6