Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4219b29485c25641…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2020-08-07 02:48:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 563ed9f10b187dc65c730a4ec16ce7cd SHA-1: 9a374e7e77e155bd220d0e1737791d27fef4bac2 SHA-256: 4219b29485c25641e07e1c7933f95e4a2608a4626845ca663e55b766b7b04613
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The embedded URL points to 'ttraff.com', which is a known malicious redirector. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting the primary intent is to trick the user into clicking the malicious link.

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=atrocity+act+in+marathi+language+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://fulaliw.northsidecolumbia.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712615/c5eca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zodepuwir.aisigcsescience.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695329/zimerete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.h72.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681513/zesumeveva-rugijixedot-pigexovenotit-tujoxubokitexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suwolamag.ghssnamsai.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452883/kareboladibixitogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.allthingsclown.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380547/9c87b.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/1/0437/2630/7480/files/small_file_jpg_to.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3485/9941/files/50168762460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0174/1463/files/kilojerativapasefosup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9954/6010/files/28490166825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1112/1057/files/84432049417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3702/4668/files/dementia_vs_delirium.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tugogesobiwem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7729/4485/files/a_transition_to_advanced_mathematics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1079/3382/files/joredejozobowevato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5851/1510/files/71811540713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9340/8409/files/rezubodiladonunukijuliwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/1009/3219/files/update_advanced_combat_tracker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6341/8784/files/52480634913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3416/4893/files/xawepav.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_off00010af2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AF2 5576 bytes
SHA-256: de32c8aa31043705b260e5a1098fe39e4bb8b5c7739da2a8743611f4a0011a6e
font_01_sfnt_off00011de3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE3 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 44b9ee6609f5f48eea81be73c6a74f64a9ea7d48f6da48fcfbd458c594c814fb