Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4172031b2aa3bbc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

120.0 KB Created: 2020-07-22 08:57:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 77e31717981e20271271d8656d041b99 SHA-1: 0c8747c2eea98806223f163ef1d96794d342b55b SHA-256: 4172031b2aa3bbc139d8be83adc2fbcc016d71196cb77f6b50691a76d6472b9f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This indicates the document is designed to trick users into visiting a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=old+alchemy+books+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sarahbethart.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681194/bidatitasozerag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.meredithkaler.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398367/2065088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.michaelrlado.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814345/84968f914d31c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rycroftlabradors.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680813/zisojiva_gorawuzi_rodewatadiwa.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/69262577592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4884/3934/files/zojususoburotenewibewato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/82505274200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3812/9823/files/gofinefewafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2403/9592/files/66977349491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutuwuja.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/13606164158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weberex.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/nirakegazimeduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getakoridun.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/97872665626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fifonupiza861279328.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/xedawuvipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nagitoxidu.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/9281774172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6350/9143/files/zuxivejuribojuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/9959313526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6985/7176/files/28535635381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3273/1038/files/tazogazasiloredujowume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9735/0554/files/17508309360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6132/1634/files/jorudix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0141/3785/files/subifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/91428743782.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_off000179c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x179C5 5184 bytes
SHA-256: f356aafb9f2f397341d0761e5f8c1ca4dde245ee61f1ddb0257da754e2e1d764
font_01_sfnt_off00018b6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18B6F 15588 bytes
SHA-256: baafbee15cbd7d1a739c42e1eb1d358b52cff9b1e64b3396ba88664985f17139
font_02_sfnt_off0001b9fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B9FC 16828 bytes
SHA-256: 09f3a5129a6dd9668057e77b616e6fb4710cb67a03d9b7b61182e64c960ed1c1