Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4244d1f25653eb69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.7 KB Created: 2020-08-26 14:44:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 78fcd59702037af5ad30593ca840bfcb SHA-1: 3bdc3cd2f25a9f5499e355ebbe5e22746d82f0b8 SHA-256: 4244d1f25653eb6961f8d85e0a0a04c58495558a5de630756daef23f5fe31358
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. Another heuristic flags the document as a link farm, suggesting an attempt to artificially boost search engine rankings or distribute content through numerous external links. The presence of a link to 'ttraff.com' indicates a likely attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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=hold+you+down+song+download+mp3 In PDF document text
    • http://povok.granthamfoundation.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740585/zijokunufabalil_xawebezejed_matemonagaba_rotopabukademin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jibejoj.linkesculpture.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406893/fazonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xejitizun.merakiandcoffee.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/zolepojatifosonejuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wexasumo.redwordediting.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/c70ada79a6.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/1/0435/3120/6808/files/dua_book_bangla.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9573/4937/files/79412370330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/2893/0709/files/icann_gtld_applicant_guidebook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0862/9659/files/crossword_puzzle_answers_wall_street_journal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9009/1940/files/61676617230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6721/9878/files/57238350636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0239/5813/files/asymptotes_problems.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0417/4233/files/dikezomuborawuxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3976/0295/files/restore_bookmarks_android_browser.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000056cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x56CB 5504 bytes
SHA-256: d80db6db9d1500bcdb0b8effd5e2b0a27efec6bcceb5eae0321f36ae681c33e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000698a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x698A 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 2a597ae01f607badae474b3cc0a75c6b5bfbee3a41bbcc187848b16b79bb8448

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