Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65e341087c005aa1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2020-08-02 23:45:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b4548b80bc3e3355ecce9093d92b2e08 SHA-1: fd3db89ca4c435267593ede2b179cb2950a03607 SHA-256: 65e341087c005aa1058b138862f526082d4bb70ef432027cb1bb621d4b2b3b3c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links to redirector domains, specifically 'ttraff.com', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. These links are presented in a manner consistent with SEO spam or phishing lures, aiming to trick users into downloading further malicious content. 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=java+how+to+program+9th+edition+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.alberta-legal.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606111/duguritu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.demsofnorthmeck.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813768/rutibuzabilapeb-mikewezebalewo-podab-rasimaxevud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bluebellhill.org.au/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814605/374201.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/97428896976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tulajemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3631/8616/files/logubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8360/4903/files/dobudap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5986/3959/files/79923994361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9378/6791/files/gabibevosetimegodep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2438/2114/files/43448484712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1219/2413/files/67280119876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5981/3279/files/neguvosi.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_off0000bdb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDB5 5540 bytes
SHA-256: 5965a7420ddcd0abfe3c29a0d5bcb060af7c46cc0d7837183d14286ea1749e62
font_01_sfnt_off0000d084.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD084 16608 bytes
SHA-256: 4c1721c3409f8a68dd8e0270089fc7734a033682a03b49183418609ecaaca242