Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28707d1a753528c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-08-15 01:52:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ee51c71b9a54814ea10cacf8fa26b9a7 SHA-1: 8e9362cceb06073fbb7bb839e0f1c3dd3d834469 SHA-256: 28707d1a753528c71001d31e8bd097ed33ff678bca578758e527d6fb299ecc23
214 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.cc/pify?keyword=ihss+electronic+timesheet+san+bernardino+county'. This indicates the document is designed to lead the user to a malicious site. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, suggesting a broad distribution or SEO poisoning attempt. The presence of a callback phishing lure further supports the malicious intent.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=ihss+electronic+timesheet+san+bernardino+county In PDF document text
    • http://files.inspirationastudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070604/solotepugowazi-mosamif-wedomur-gamazotapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lighthousepointplymouth.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776826/11eec9ec762b57.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bodycreationpersonaltraining.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070702/genesodepifud-balegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.yoghana.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776363/925604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.352coaching.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383544/julotide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6579/4965/files/sanizosapow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7050/2550/files/bajukolovipore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9249/9877/files/47783299797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/fuwakuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7757/4557/files/redfish_fishing_report_venice_la.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1423/4016/files/71138499556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4605/0728/files/juwogalizek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2045/1997/files/51541801331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3684/3933/files/posefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1511/6696/files/bioremediation_files.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000612e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x612E 5240 bytes
SHA-256: e2a9fe410df448a15eb4d0ad80d2e3fbdd4d9e98d498409fea30d6d8c9cad714
font_01_sfnt_off000072bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72BC 10244 bytes
SHA-256: 52997be7387ab82d90114c0cc57ccfc80a0cae53072c781fbfb7670aa895b674
font_02_sfnt_off000095ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x95BA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176