Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 416f99d4a771aa46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-09-16 10:55:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5b2375bdee830a492586da13fa0085d1 SHA-1: 5cec8ee140152367e006e033f3563988ac21366e SHA-256: 416f99d4a771aa46f86daae29aadfdb2076777f06dbec1c2808574d76b68b9dd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a mass of external links, many of which point to redirector infrastructure. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.club/pify?keyword=beautiful+broken+things+pdf+free+download', is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to drive traffic to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The file's structure and content indicate a link farm tactic to improve SEO for 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.club/pify?keyword=beautiful+broken+things+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.stmwvenue.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740515/bc78b9022c4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.allseasonsironworks.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739081/fuxaxufezanarinegapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.marinovanhoenacker.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776246/gakifid-zikonatu-falogoradel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.burkega.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739173/kikone_zodijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.robinmaydavismd.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741225/raxewu-padudetap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xanab.fiestaomaha.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775918/xalilafan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.smartersweat.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379183/fujoxojogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.data-in-harmony.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874567/880baa8b0a06ee.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/1/0436/3000/2336/files/google_sheets_calendar_template_october_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/3403/5622/files/xuwufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9385/9231/files/kodak_black_tunnel_vision_mp3_downlo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7949/9940/files/daydream_believer_trumpet_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6c98bc_de515f3582f7492bb950c36dfbe984bb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/140efa_d0bfa14b4f5842978a47f79f0e15c469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a18aa6_4d64e29925dd48da9d999b4f221ee18c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6df952_ad72f07de9c0411aba44db65bf10fbe5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9ef0c3_48ec8aa297dc4d2cac0d432810d46beb.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005400.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5400 5528 bytes
SHA-256: 616343c3e69b5d2530fe79adb17b060c9ec1abda26261956669fc61ce4780082
font_01_sfnt_off000066c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66C8 9896 bytes
SHA-256: 66020320007936cf0e102afdc8e3f809d46d4bfe844b58d7985906eab02109b7
font_02_sfnt_off000088b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88B8 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34