Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 325304a2419707b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.1 KB Created: 2020-08-09 18:49:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5522c8b487e889278b70ccdb4bacdd90 SHA-1: dde103d40e15344c798d3872df60d1109c498326 SHA-256: 325304a2419707b9df9d6bd7f146e570119cf056edf7eccfe5ec8e66545e73b9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure related to 'how to become a forex trader' and includes a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The document also exhibits characteristics of an advance-fee scam, with multiple embedded URLs pointing to what appears to be a link farm. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=how+to+become+a+forex+trader+pdf, which likely leads to a fraudulent scheme.

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=how+to+become+a+forex+trader+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.chameliramachandran.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453904/685509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dreamamazingtravel.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384127/f4a3f44687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.teshekpuklake.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380279/6589ba3531540a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ayalife.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437172/d2abc3ba1c1a2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.creditriskanalytics.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637325/3748591.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/1/0434/2376/0536/files/texasojebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4410/0506/files/50277587731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4470/8245/files/finuriwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9183/6566/files/fodororinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3810/6023/files/rozazefenamuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/2857609843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6246/8516/files/79342418338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2394/9224/files/57456584659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0392/8991/files/apc_back_ups_xs_1000_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2884/8538/files/mugozenujefosubuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1117/7639/files/reverse_a_linked_list_recursively.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_off0000758d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x758D 5352 bytes
SHA-256: 406404524c2821e1408aa31419d78e6d07ec75a79fff3f7808c5554f369f4f86
font_01_sfnt_off000087b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87B9 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 5b7ec0b2c5197121720adf91884c331700791ed2fe088a0628d3a7883db16f7b

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