Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 624ee78e2cdfab29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2020-08-14 08:56:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e2e076a6b4d986d7975a162da1823429 SHA-1: 389361511ebc7450ad6c7bd86331579bcd537afa SHA-256: 624ee78e2cdfab29652012ac10157ec9846fa6b94f652e4fd04017c1d6ad0f23
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including a critical redirector link to 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=gre%20argument%20essay%20samples%20pdf', which is likely part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body also contains this URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high probability of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=gre%20argument%20essay%20samples%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.northwestalbertabrighterfutures.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969077/4618884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alienghosttaxi.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739238/7e8b0ab37bb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luledete.insidersoman.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637814/f2e5a965327b3c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nokuka.clonmelglassandmirrors.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438800/1586403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jayfeenstraphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437225/6841001.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/1/0433/4066/0891/files/53469219962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8580/0358/files/mulapasukazupivadumigur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6810/4602/files/nursery_school_syllabus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2066/2422/files/runescape_sentinel_fragments.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7316/6744/files/bikamulubixujeliva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9501/4056/files/sazikilobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7029/1096/files/ruladoxepufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4160/2198/files/40371166721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0384/4520/files/dusapemikitimaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5804/4827/files/50352766627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3791/6312/files/train_reservation_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9991/2344/files/citation_apa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4207/8877/files/nugofesofefafuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8867/files/96622422057.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dafe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAFE 5496 bytes
SHA-256: c74a17a94d55cb8e8aea92cea430edbac7238c4f21b4a87dc2c8aca9452bd877
font_01_sfnt_off0000eda9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA9 10720 bytes
SHA-256: e68b45e2ba9b5a8bee50ce69a8914d87ea5c32dd63aee6e18b29988cd756689b