Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36cf8c86530fc64f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-07-31 12:49:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: af3e7f311dfc9600827e00230cd9751e SHA-1: fd7a376b67f4fb990d93ca3996168b8326cc4a23 SHA-256: 36cf8c86530fc64f6bcc9ac66c32bd3b83a5e06a1403711d6235af1a2b018505
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a 'PDF SEO Link Farm'. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=fundamentals+of+electrical+engineering+bobrow+pdf+download', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body appears to be malformed or truncated, but the presence of the link farm and the malicious redirector strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to 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=fundamentals+of+electrical+engineering+bobrow+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.missouri-al-anon.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453045/519921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gloriousseaglass.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740637/9217886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.asiandmore.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398338/eea645d395f6af.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vancees.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682802/ralujedew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.soulandsynergyec.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775647/08fce.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/1/0428/9134/6079/files/lemimedimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5892/0605/files/logafisivonof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4441/3341/files/66215965132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sejil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2314/5896/files/nowudejum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6590/0196/files/dixivokabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1466/5886/files/fuziforoxofobefowuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9290/2037/files/20624742562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mowojemabedeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5323/6902/files/56549414946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5543/0302/files/fisivaleju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1379/9064/files/46019909122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6568/7717/files/395492628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1451/9973/files/jarafatun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6785/0390/files/vevoruvawidusat.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000066b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66B0 5544 bytes
SHA-256: 582d5faf834b1fc296aed812eee7feff7cbe638a860ec78380501c1f99574bbb
font_01_sfnt_off0000797d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x797D 10248 bytes
SHA-256: a2204f2f1479b8c547944833a8282afc02009c24e243f8b0c78e3a57da375a8c