Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48b0a7363838d4b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.7 KB Created: 2020-08-06 23:18:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1f6d324960aa73324039c2755bfb3e4a SHA-1: d52dda2465a1f0226e233a2b1383bdd7badb4615 SHA-256: 48b0a7363838d4b7f26f5fbeaf1c20114ab63b91ba66ca75da31f72a072bacd0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, 'ttraff.cc', which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=learning+arabic+words+pdf', reinforcing the lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=learning+arabic+words+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.cloudvalleycashmere.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406785/9495024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.destinybydesignonline.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606046/wujaden-kezerelepuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ktkayakrentals.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813855/e25a2f28b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.daphnehocakedesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739789/wamuzapojupaxeworupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tankenterprises.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874595/mukuworulusuki.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/1/0435/8491/3565/files/quantitative_chemical_analysis_harris_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5658/5111/files/32630831643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3092/1894/files/aadhar_card_update_form_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1718/2104/files/75476339420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7318/4678/files/23698379828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7948/9950/files/things_i_wish_i_knew_before_i_got_married.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3865/3086/files/normal_cdf_versus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3350/9534/files/basubaninaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0978/5512/files/22677416947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8285/8144/files/78631824387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2945/5263/files/fowunilumelurake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9884/7896/files/85756847581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0067/6001/files/37090482825.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off00009b35.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x9B35 25864 bytes
SHA-256: 950fed63cf5319a28e9245ef45cac55ded45109d68a452a923e294608e6aee89
font_00_sfnt_off000062aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62AA 5464 bytes
SHA-256: a78edd3ec9ca1d900cf0dc09e815fca039a595141a8da3b165abec57216ce6d2
font_01_sfnt_off0000755f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x755F 12108 bytes
SHA-256: 1c81f9c5506262e1346eed51d2927bbfa24091891587cbf7a799fcf3a354b914