Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 396cd65d6d9f3923…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.3 KB Created: 2020-08-19 18:22:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b6e095d09eee1aa56e301ee765b1cc5c SHA-1: dafcfa520ec66251670552c8d15638f70b16fc9f SHA-256: 396cd65d6d9f3923d560a4c4add70eab577269e4b71503d6bfd3fbb42e632ea7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=waveguide+propagation+constant', which is likely used to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous other PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute 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=waveguide+propagation+constant In PDF document text
    • http://files.ayurglo.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302718/zadinirakutibit-xisivedonawer-xuludugo-makew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sajobe.vigaeatery.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856185/xakosorufikemonejof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.welcometoamyland.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437515/gepozatogulaki-kufefugaji-bevojavire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.serbaballet.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874377/xikosobuzojoxas-gevosap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dapefa.utahstudentnurse.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438304/vezoziwofu-nobizobenofusu.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/1/0430/3834/3322/files/78221046287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6709/7756/files/gevesogepepodumaduzuforo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1017/4630/files/cantos_coro_lldm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9857/0909/files/kusaluvalizas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1855/0430/files/41000562564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4296/3613/files/xozalurowedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5827/5238/files/zegidatasim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9492/4694/files/62015520820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1281/6034/files/canon_6d_ii_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8038/3653/files/52598007364.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000677d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x677D 5284 bytes
SHA-256: 9471f8694794df4d2e8c52a0abae1d4ecb060f0e05fa32d29476db718f2cde73
font_01_sfnt_off00007994.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7994 14116 bytes
SHA-256: 61769e2c5516433efc814b01c02688a21601f5ced211a06f1d285917b6fb95cf
font_02_sfnt_off0000a643.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA643 16280 bytes
SHA-256: 0ab4b5da5955669dacfcdcc8f4d6fe5fed632cfbd9ad7fab3dd8c3119d90804e