Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 698b25273524248a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.3 KB Created: 2020-08-22 04:09:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8651238f10b92a01ba6fb917467cf4b5 SHA-1: e4b0e48df0e57ec1af0a73b5cb2089d842698a1b SHA-256: 698b25273524248a94ec96fb3e904aa845a86b9b53217e16661e1fdd0af2f255
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The embedded URL `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=past+simple+questions+exercises+elementary+pdf` is identified as a malicious redirector. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=past+simple+questions+exercises+elementary+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fosajuzow.hannapachman.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813714/gekugosezobajavez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.salmansoz.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683252/1187716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0805/6740/files/xadewatulefikutabusad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3977/6159/files/mechanism_of_action_of_atorvastatin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5210/3842/files/38624202027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5052/3031/files/junonabobeludoduparanuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3177/9733/files/73794772378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7922/1927/files/wanejijekujedaporef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4054/6714/files/65240939819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1447/1330/files/b_l_theraja_volume_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4895/1194/files/fowubigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5965/7374/files/rekajunulediduka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9334/4924/files/zutizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5590/6973/files/69484568948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2216/1832/files/36650970609.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000069a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69A5 5480 bytes
SHA-256: e57d229599c62f836a9f99f07721249946ad5c38c09efd004a5d57ae78c7a6ad
font_01_sfnt_off00007c35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C35 9948 bytes
SHA-256: 90b362ff6c00dce8bd975592b3727e9ca178e987ff38aa4a2e1d0b5473cffcbe
font_02_sfnt_off00009e35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E35 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333