Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66e2abe399a1bd65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.4 KB Created: 2020-08-05 07:03:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8ec55afebe3fcada4e33ca69c19c4dca SHA-1: 9caf58cce9b89a8e909e5a175c7687afebb969f4 SHA-256: 66e2abe399a1bd656b43d3e28b4594b73fbe740f79ee534b951ecc740e47fd1f
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. The document body text, though partially obfuscated, includes a product name and the URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into downloading further malicious content or engaging in a phishing scheme. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=qualcast%20petrol%20strimmer%20cdb30a%20manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.linhr.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070189/tabotusatoboza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thecannabisdoula.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740533/1d8031f65e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hinxworthandedworthvillagehall.org.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406403/pivonove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.orchardviewchoir.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637255/fiwujiralagu-vapamazazuwega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.craations.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069934/pizafijosuxibiwon.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/1/0434/8339/8310/files/23570764028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9821/0461/files/dudefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6640/9638/files/orange_county_register_crosswords.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8941/2764/files/gorejenomididexukubegogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9780/7265/files/58119281674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2378/5370/files/2114236815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7977/7952/files/kekitalasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4169/7441/files/cauchy_sequence.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6645/8266/files/anions_and_cations_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/4155504299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/dedepisolutiri.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_off00004c42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4C42 5724 bytes
SHA-256: c318415c206017c78cd1bd498c558adddff86b891f7e5dcb27bcf54d176d85ff
font_01_sfnt_off00005f92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F92 9696 bytes
SHA-256: 462374fffa29261c6360949f260c4d6464cc1b055759d820b81166072067a8e7