Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30316fe598f117ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.9 KB Created: 2020-07-31 11:27:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4cf1ed270e3bf201350a23a87d9af1df SHA-1: b03de52c867e31887fa6368a3166cc169ee47e99 SHA-256: 30316fe598f117ba89648e998fdfa12150263c0f9c11033e94d815f84d7207ab
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 'ttraff.cc'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to academic content, likely serving as a lure. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, which is characteristic of a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final malicious destination.

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=derivation+of+equations+of+motion+by+graphical+method+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.prospectamechurch.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437615/7505379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.literarycounsel.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607131/pitofo-jadejegopir-pewuwusafad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.brendanswallace.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873945/lofera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gamblingproblemhelp.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453615/9819880.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/1/0433/4708/3429/files/7411676432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4769/7049/files/84896488822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4193/7818/files/povozalaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4356/8278/files/76290152547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2652/0986/files/niludelowovewaruki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6202/5624/files/3426395403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0265/8979/files/wixefapovivokuwavelot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2564/5211/files/82926358032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7327/4018/files/41875384893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3006/7865/files/32621966231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4135/6950/files/46234273723.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000701b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x701B 5880 bytes
SHA-256: c74ec7ea41890a96656e1ea4f2e0c964cccdea4e62e366b76c8a7ec6c4a24080
font_01_sfnt_off000083f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83F9 15496 bytes
SHA-256: f4b61888273303a52a8aa0c27b806b4dfb6f3ac8d304587a77264af2885783d3
font_02_sfnt_off0000b457.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB457 16212 bytes
SHA-256: 8493e157b12b101a67d72eeebb5ec6105fbaef992b69ec611cb22b769443a165