Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66abeced74d3159b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.2 KB Created: 2020-08-25 06:18:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e98410e1847f8703e6d2f1aed7eb1730 SHA-1: 3d0ad2cc9e699e8c7b561684764dcdf7afd7be65 SHA-256: 66abeced74d3159b836f6615a3dccf216df86829f0efdd75ac5c18a8e1ae0ad3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. The document body and heuristics indicate a lure for downloading software, likely a malicious application, using SEO tactics to appear legitimate. The presence of many links to external PDFs, some benign and some unknown, suggests a link farm designed to obscure the malicious redirector.

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=antistress+full+version+apk In PDF document text
    • http://watod.elancommunities.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070786/6a764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jilin.stephaneheaume.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857101/nopawukixigojor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gedirox.hanamadecrafts.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/woseduwetasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jajut.moonlightbellydance.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070674/79d95c9f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.travelreiters.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740619/jaxigojiwoliwos.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/1/0428/3380/5471/files/zejugapijuzipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7668/0870/files/22101690783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7108/5475/files/boston_bus_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7410/1149/files/rotitelanamegoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0679/3627/files/fewepevuwexel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/8008/0549/files/huawei_p9_lite_2017_update_android_8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2811/4582/files/asbaq_e_tareekh_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5906/1670/files/lokafimovotabofetorufinog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8251/3574/files/watch_the_avengers_movie_online_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9812/8036/files/agile_maturity_model.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8879/6053/files/guzudutap.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_off00005ca9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CA9 5008 bytes
SHA-256: 39a7cc0d2db2fd1ebbf717c0b7f2280a20a431bb7250483b3c3e11676bbdcc17
font_01_sfnt_off00006dcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DCB 10004 bytes
SHA-256: 3e99f933e8b71488c7b92cf8f96a5ad462fd13766626759882b20427ffc568ea