Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 430380b9fb68ce57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.0 KB Created: 2020-08-05 17:12:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d04d6c3f8b7c49ebb6b792c525f58acd SHA-1: 5046def55c88e13577376b063d22baae733630d0 SHA-256: 430380b9fb68ce57f6ae925b92cc9a87321f3c652e9c8b4024f010bfac23e36b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to redirector infrastructure, specifically identified as a malicious link farm and an SEO redirector lure. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=effects+of+globalisation+in+zimbabwe+pdf, which is designed to trick users into downloading a PDF. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links strongly indicate a phishing or malicious redirection attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

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.cc/pify?keyword=effects+of+globalisation+in+zimbabwe+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zorot.caninesmovingforward.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607062/tejegagawutuxigukeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.littlebranchesruralroots.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406893/jekifelisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.paladin.care/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775518/takilijodu_pokolidu_vubudu.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/1/0432/0228/1633/files/28543602445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9105/8083/files/sotidabovakojukejekil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2503/1590/files/33764142774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6191/9390/files/76780599433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0029/9683/files/bicornuate_uterus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7488/5534/files/the_fall_of_heaven_andrew_scott_cooper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0350/1989/files/82950142674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7726/1729/files/mimimadumewuminufezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2728/1558/files/juxonavipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tawoxusabevesumaxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4398/6330/files/54251492150.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_off00008901.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8901 5620 bytes
SHA-256: 144bb04a187259a495a055b84a1b4f3d1aeefaab094782a5d8b20d66b782e602
font_01_sfnt_off00009c33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C33 10104 bytes
SHA-256: 453ccebe18f5b6fdae22fa86ce5ae1fc337ee1a8fa08086ccd6347c1eea1dfdf

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