Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b84b9cea228197c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-08 20:01:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7cee4a413d2662313d21f4219c011f4f SHA-1: 4cfad12d1cdebfbe9b309a9ce1fc78c4e0ac361a SHA-256: 5b84b9cea228197cdf2f42742c91a013373db191c4a04e25375d3937f069dd93
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is known to host malicious content. The document body also contains the same redirector URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into clicking it under the guise of a sample letter of intent. 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.com/pify?keyword=sample+letter+of+intent+for+graduate+school+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.abctsgmsig.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874396/fatetu-ruvawipa-wilukabalufur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jejit.canadian-apitherapy-association.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814423/julutufiti-nivetolutapoga-sefusokava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.marleysinternational.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378999/e44bfd164eea3.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/1/0429/6871/1321/files/meek_mill_mp3_download_skull.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7096/3350/files/suzejodore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7027/5237/files/dufabekisakunegegobob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6430/3522/files/laligirumixaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2358/0830/files/36280292215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3957/2643/files/annexure_e1_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9864/5404/files/public_static_boolean.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5332/5219/files/zofanokavuzepitovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4832/8603/files/gozigumilokaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/84574839703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7777/1162/files/54028991169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4763/2548/files/relative_dating_in_archaeology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6045/3791/files/69917519316.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_off00006634.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6634 5672 bytes
SHA-256: efabd582207af2ddc63e1f39441a729fc124b167fb455cd3eed9c637f968b765
font_01_sfnt_off00007950.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7950 10144 bytes
SHA-256: 64218f495f7b8b07b9c331c69b8107a1b1718f1b4f53de24575c2ad88614e06f

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