Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44dfa3f8c21faa14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-12 04:57:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8c00bed90dd94113aa88db90a2774fe9 SHA-1: 841453f7bafb8d56c1398aca4dec10ca0c78177a SHA-256: 44dfa3f8c21faa14e0f53be4d04a32bc60283019530b03447c1b28cc22e2e8c1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=how%20to%20swing%20trade%20forex%20pdf'. This indicates a likely attempt to lure users to malicious infrastructure, potentially for phishing or malware delivery. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains text related to 'swing trade forex pdf', suggesting a lure to attract victims interested in financial trading. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/wb?keyword=how%20to%20swing%20trade%20forex%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.onestepborders.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871650/3959209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lijaro.jilsoniainteriors.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607062/2495658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotigo.thepattniconsultancy.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607600/1e44b6ea0fc2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.honeybeesweetery.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131608037/xisuvuluzegomu.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/1/0433/7175/7718/files/muvakixev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5014/7745/files/16247322087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2897/1681/files/41422405203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7379/8298/files/71184883149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8750/4294/files/42147414754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4591/2727/files/21808652574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0989/9670/files/62855603157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0655/8359/files/82669421836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2241/7047/files/learn_beginner_spanish_bundle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8489/7701/files/savumuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1604/3168/files/pakugilopolipiwubinu.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_off0000605f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x605F 5296 bytes
SHA-256: dede7b93df0569c33cdd071462c0dba5fd9a744682b98de15ae1adbba8b6feba
font_01_sfnt_off00007286.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7286 10272 bytes
SHA-256: d1bb3f8460610e5bede2aeda9b628fa28d6fe21771853eb2ef7cf778748cc810

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