Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31ca04e080e89805…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.9 KB Created: 2020-08-24 08:54:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fe4e29884879b8ae5762d83c0224e159 SHA-1: fd60e416876df10e3da511cf2084c7d301435a93 SHA-256: 31ca04e080e8980514c8a16d3c44263ee28ef4b038acacfef3e0b044df436d6f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic firings indicate that this is likely part of an SEO link farm, designed to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=bbc+co+uk+sport+live+guide.

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.com/pify?keyword=bbc+co+uk+sport+live+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.themrjband.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606629/xisun.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/1/0438/3745/6534/files/biochemical_food_tests.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0841/7192/files/manufacturing_engineering_and_technology_7th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8259/6008/files/regular_verbs_in_the_preterite_tense_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4993/4229/files/fizilokixovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0105/1293/files/sowefusilinitaritelase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7230/5817/files/wegojuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3565/5335/files/characteristics_of_islamic_civilization.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3016/7202/files/nosoredotizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6903/7974/files/rivejofupunazosugawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9558/8002/files/xixajuzijagedimefukozafuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1812/5465/files/2001_jeep_grand_cherokee_repair_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7574/7491/files/82533619596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0155/0760/files/fevakopizeniroseki.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_off00004411.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4411 5344 bytes
SHA-256: 8baca73c25b790794650a667dc386a743171f7a1b0dbbd3582a3bae096f7990f
font_01_sfnt_off0000564e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x564E 9596 bytes
SHA-256: b76c5341d6fb05eeadf2e072ca2f92afa354b4f3ded69c3d3776be2da37f3a7a

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