Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30d53f44d722366d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2020-09-13 16:59:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 03a9bbf2aa5a6848a8aaf77e428a98e3 SHA-1: 4426e344ec4e2a5784f048890946706a192eb6e2 SHA-256: 30d53f44d722366dc5cfbcf8482a1d51a1be20582db55eb6d57d295943f1d265
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=what+are+brazil%2527s+natural+resources', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, indicating the primary lure is to direct the user to this malicious site. The heuristic 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' further suggests a deceptive intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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.club/wix?keyword=what+are+brazil%2527s+natural+resources In PDF document text
    • http://files.castironbrighton.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740524/9558521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vincentrussodesigns.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739783/2950643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.iananthonycoleman.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776718/9342694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mainerobotics.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607331/4365508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ryanshay.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695749/1a877a9ba8d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pijer.coonrapidscommunitystrengthfoundation.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437657/kudiguxo_sodowaxud_wimasuroxuvore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thepractitionertable.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410158/jupozozomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.createdigitalpublishing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438018/27194.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://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eed56f_dd0da9df32d943afac28e8f8101ab4be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fafc38_d92bd260d8fa4e62a3ee4f18d1ee373e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c46c8a_9acd60ce6e3f4e7cb3818d7484404f3e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/724bd4_1625bae06ed147bd8de711ed48fe43ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/121e37_eba44443d4cf425bb0f8ca1e9f8d0a0f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7243/8947/files/93341754180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0131/4456/files/dynamics_of_machinery_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1765/6728/files/minipuwefanirow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5144/1563/files/37769531035.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_off0000efe8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE8 5008 bytes
SHA-256: 71aa4e670e02b9ea2fa34aad8dddbb414a30849c15fb35a6fcaf7c23894bbda7
font_01_sfnt_off000100fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100FD 11484 bytes
SHA-256: d0f6e3fd16f005c06293fd448764edf56a42475456046a6e11e9b69ccb916ef1
font_02_sfnt_off000126f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126F8 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c