Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31d9031a312474d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 20:41:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 025920f9fb0b10d0f2af7b32a27c491c SHA-1: ee2057e6f1760da37b34a4aef71d907d194ca0cf SHA-256: 31d9031a312474d1f05a93e71959b7d7a91a21881bf5098d2ef6431b65cdf38e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=asmaul+husna+pdf+khassida', which is likely the primary lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious content.

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=asmaul+husna+pdf+khassida In PDF document text
    • http://files.smithson-gunmaker.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069886/3953934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.minnesotaswimcamps.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483197/1192376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomise.homesewnbycarolyn.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384635/6908988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotobemu.wildharvestfestival.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070487/1166212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.talentrisecorp.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739227/f25304800d28.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/1/0435/7862/2111/files/aprender_alemo_basico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4375/7992/files/71389983527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1512/6692/files/tatokiguvonadopem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9145/1294/files/75994812744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5589/6990/files/7704612477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7242/9980/files/setabegiwiwubaxaxopaliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2964/2911/files/51247281261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7640/2854/files/zuxiramomefugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2361/3595/files/25203774170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8090/8949/files/88335090138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2229/3920/files/38690077791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6982/4407/files/thomas_multivariable_calculus.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off0000b972.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xB972 28960 bytes
SHA-256: 177a667a4eba5988a86700ac4e1dde4d8f5bf710cba9fc27b57ebe7ad9cefdfc
font_00_sfnt_off0000778b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x778B 4812 bytes
SHA-256: de075b1ee58de2e88502d42f6c5496b1cd4dc63b81bd57a8ac2032b8cc92ac6d
font_01_sfnt_off000087a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87A4 16448 bytes
SHA-256: d44d9d5436088a83383dffddaa64831d0200bf931b94266b4989f1edbd48a546
font_03_sfnt_off0000ec73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC73 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3