Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62bf893985cb94d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-11 15:02:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 660410c692b89d4293fa71c3459a2380 SHA-1: b5d277b0abe260198123e42bffb598b272a65fb6 SHA-256: 62bf893985cb94d32945a98a43385fceb07c9917a86bc2a305b82e92a843d80f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text as the malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading further content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of multiple SEO-style links points to a link farm or phishing attempt.

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=unit%2032%20networked%20system%20security%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gobetefi.aubrey-annedavis.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303382/2291275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.marylynnswenson.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438651/sokejofomuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biwuroko.riefcanada.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739561/dilusorob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8919/9268/files/36678479290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6926/8373/files/the_economist_may_5th_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8806/0321/files/buku_agama_hindu_kelas_10_kurikulum_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6753/0657/files/kijugalebosuxene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2287/4781/files/basilicata_guida_turistica.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0537/0787/files/29286271023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6835/8807/files/97767951896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9950/3254/files/career_management_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9168/0666/files/applications_of_artificial_intelligence_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0458/4355/files/kijutazalanokimiburer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vitalifurefafimeribedewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6799/7344/files/95196903789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/3645/5591/files/cycloalkanes_nomenclature.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000651c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x651C 5484 bytes
SHA-256: 59dd6ec6a94b8443e7c60598e99b34a93b6022ae99131f6995533117dac297b2
font_01_sfnt_off000077cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77CD 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 6c38ebe579f1f7bf9109ee43a63097207547e7affc0d65e529dd566fc614456e
font_02_sfnt_off00009b49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B49 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 781b9fae2fb9201b4a05d2041fea553bb2973f1d011ab9c51e3326c72e342c60