Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65e8c132ce2d6be7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-10 14:53:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0789d806d93b17fcaf591a5cdfccfd90 SHA-1: 937718899089efc8f2ec73c0ab5fc8964556916f SHA-256: 65e8c132ce2d6be7b866cf27364e01f665d8caf7a35ddcd3f560ea457269c38a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links designed to appear as academic papers, but they redirect to a malicious domain (ttraff.com). This indicates a phishing or scam attempt, likely to harvest credentials or deliver further malware. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=behavioral+neuroscience+pdf+breedlove In PDF document text
    • http://files.dalewoodbaptistpdo.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815367/guzoxopajale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muwareseb.outreachministrieschurch.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453062/7aa24947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuxino.offthebeamwoodworking.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814238/8505670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.avianoreunion.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606256/5327800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuvipet.eastbroadwaypta.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636725/9703248.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/1/0434/2457/9736/files/11177692745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3929/2577/files/64744414600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6201/8716/files/24715400471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8987/0491/files/10839152486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8457/0019/files/psp_chet_codes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9005/9176/files/90546386131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8330/8955/files/zulobomigodukuveli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8535/7463/files/81792980332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5650/5756/files/3155511773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6976/files/81248460491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6554/0759/files/15877706255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8094/1729/files/craftsman_dys_4500_owner_s_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6163/9318/files/30587251362.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_off00007071.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7071 5492 bytes
SHA-256: ffcf3aab6089f030e8e626cdcdb2881cf2f52d55bd318a2653d10450e2d6c22c
font_01_sfnt_off00008312.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8312 10044 bytes
SHA-256: 397c2b242c422659bb39adce57d9b8fe55b0c30b6e3b091296063945242088e6

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