Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 680f9dcce9d04127…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-07-23 08:28:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 564e8814f4618a8b9d2e8b96e73482b4 SHA-1: 9fd14cd758342aafdae365bea776cbbcaf43d20e SHA-256: 680f9dcce9d04127702acf027fa9d27ddb8bc919d7e4bf44a91780631307a352
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicates a large number of external PDF links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also 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=ayo+and+teo+songs++rolex In PDF document text
    • http://files.balperazim2.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969511/5234353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nexterawrestling.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813111/zejewajebolasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.myacexportfolio.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637306/5762611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.meganalms.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739719/mawilewe-musegizororeli-xisedizifukob-jirusujilufuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.researchdesigndoctor.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164112/31287801494cdc3.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/1/0432/5005/7373/files/63458291493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/87294954422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6245/1611/files/wubadugax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1155/4980/files/zazibedabimur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4918/7493/files/tivanisudabuviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0210/1923/files/45446236045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2657/9610/files/vofowemamuzodaxedeneboxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7754/1787/files/1924143173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7046/3895/files/risijugurosudituravol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9298/2427/files/vifikozukibinateroro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1557/5464/files/gelogufegim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6858/7174/files/belowariwalizazavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8432/5798/files/85580203273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3815/4653/files/8262132220.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_off000072b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72B1 4892 bytes
SHA-256: af809cfe559b1fb597fe558ee0bcf74d9ee9e8a58aca6f54b753ed183415630b
font_01_sfnt_off00008363.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8363 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 12fb493d3307fbd9187e05d4062188d640aad90261b910e86531b9e6404daa75