Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a7e0f47a4909b15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.1 KB Created: 2020-08-11 12:50:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1729451a8debcdee2d0d40750b65a7c0 SHA-1: db77c22f5e34f4edc2a3c4a41cab9e19b3fce1a2 SHA-256: 2a7e0f47a4909b15cf5ae321c8ec295d078a6fa856e7eefb7b4ee6cdaacfdcd3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which points to 'ttraff.cc'. This URL is embedded within the document body, disguised as a link to an academic word list. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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/pify?keyword=1000+academic+word+list+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.onesketchyartstudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775750/3145553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tracysnyctrips.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813988/befef51793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cachor.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775357/95544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.beyondbonesapparel.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695505/sojusop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porukilit.bioscienceaustralia.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606165/mumorati.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/1/0427/8022/9791/files/59532548254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6694/7744/files/63281563795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8776/4387/files/islamic_book_bikhre_moti_pdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9173/8277/files/80124697353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5641/4363/files/51744102858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4976/1433/files/proyecto_de_tesis_peru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0149/3142/files/haloalkanes_class_12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2920/8983/files/tinoxima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2434/3462/files/41341981165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3885/0728/files/ganexirixobekirikame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9898/1030/files/wawibavejixef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2096/6293/files/koburoxofim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5824/9376/files/fugudif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4243/8310/files/gomezutewivasu.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000090fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90FA 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 131959a0e8a75c0674e1f4ac13cc537c5748048ab9c476d9022f1f690fc05336
font_01_sfnt_off0000a39a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA39A 12488 bytes
SHA-256: be45a48a4ea2cf92a05baffcf52d97c0ee5732ebe96a7da8808143c2f76485da

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