Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4169bbd4df4dbfed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-08-14 10:26:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 18b47d50dae69ce6d69456196d567ef7 SHA-1: 59a74566379c590eae657e59e50368d350633ec0 SHA-256: 4169bbd4df4dbfed6b605ad073103a59882390d00687115ac5cb6476b6d04e20
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, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com). The document body text and embedded links are disguised as academic worksheets, likely to lure users into clicking the malicious links. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=7.+3+triangle+inequalities+worksheet+answers In PDF document text
    • http://remitodan.atholtonmusic.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406149/wosasakusexet_zodawuwapeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alexherrald.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381518/juvoxelazo-gadex-vilukiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.singersandactorsworkshop.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740218/mubazaxumadajag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.planet-patrick.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437930/9716647.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/1/0434/1461/8262/files/tomezudulunuwojasapef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9954/6010/files/2514038694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2256/5032/files/mevazosisira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6642/4470/files/62723553396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0659/1127/files/12629262762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3286/1079/files/carry_on_lelivros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8144/1181/files/41385550926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7576/3353/files/gulilizuxufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3341/9160/files/bonitaporifon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4428/1247/files/36497079084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9179/5875/files/reverse_an_integer_java.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0006/0310/files/361465106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6576/1176/files/84421659572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4291/2926/files/bologna_process_higher_education.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_off00005adc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5ADC 5408 bytes
SHA-256: 87932074d2dbbae793b2ba78463017c516b0a1ed21ab56b8cb0bab1a4ea21c65
font_01_sfnt_off00006d4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D4E 10172 bytes
SHA-256: 3ce606ee526b86aa3e450024fc88c03cfebf20bcf207c47a9577a53268adce3a
font_02_sfnt_off00009047.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9047 16208 bytes
SHA-256: 2cc36779403287548c184605c5d9ac9f8e39fd5c9622849292a4135ce18498ed