Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 631172a4d08b0404…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.8 KB Created: 2020-08-20 21:40:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3d812063e91d6bc7afd39c602dd6a5a7 SHA-1: 28b6821801166002fe01c20bf3944431371d40fa SHA-256: 631172a4d08b0404b19561bdf7e5c425a14c9f39ce2cca2836e44c972e2bd9cf
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 text, though heavily obfuscated, includes the same URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading potentially harmful content under the guise of a repair manual. The ML classifier strongly indicates 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=2016+porsche+cayenne+repair+manual In PDF document text
    • http://gojarat.sethled.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606069/b746e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pupchella.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775009/fakalabovat.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/1/0434/2874/1285/files/beauty_of_nature_essay_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5526/8519/files/lettre_de_rsiliation_de_bail_par_le_propritaire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nipexaledova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/8601/5640/files/baskerville_a_sherlock_holmes_mystery_script.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2986/4343/files/multiplication_worksheets_grade_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6350/1222/files/wugukuxavezirobivekodud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1742/1479/files/sipexoxepekipadegefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9018/2297/files/wogudubar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9151/6839/files/39796648605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4225/7561/files/sass_7-_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3876/8294/files/57651843378.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_off00004f53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F53 5660 bytes
SHA-256: 7e6afef6fb568fa73b3d92245b4056259bad93faa390ffc1ebceb445d25cf29a
font_01_sfnt_off0000625f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x625F 10600 bytes
SHA-256: ba67cee8f56970f3f7651c8dcf1fa9b0065aa1d5f35c9769586e3915013f6c38