Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bdd3182754db2b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.9 KB Created: 2020-08-01 01:07:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bda69880ffd69c322dd8ae96b41c68c0 SHA-1: 3cd8b3ebd5d31402972b8fe3b9290c6934189d60 SHA-256: 6bdd3182754db2b24749deead4536a468938e9ff2926eb82b11be7836f4e82de
194 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 an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The embedded URLs, particularly the one pointing to 'ttraff.com', are flagged as malicious redirectors. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and other PDF links, reinforcing the malicious intent.

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=cape+girardeau+mo+form+topix In PDF document text
    • http://files.mx.autumntheodorephotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740116/4155502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.azvrha.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437453/mujapelalimag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dairyflatponyclub.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739142/vidibobipal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.martinkellyartist.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482959/vasoneko.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/1/0431/0417/4233/files/ruxiwigujunoxowigoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3309/1480/files/84013368710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2476/1507/files/535035237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7418/2563/files/83227361469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4233/3084/files/zutuwama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7230/7875/files/vowiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5271/1586/files/45967012176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5725/8401/files/putitupidibibogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1627/3563/files/38163620892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9793/9367/files/buwoweguniniti.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_off00009c55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C55 5124 bytes
SHA-256: b4c10791a19c7854cee286f6df8f89a32b957fe464e381f008cc1566b0a7b3d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000adb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADB7 11032 bytes
SHA-256: b88c05658e7a4b45e7f84455fd842bd744be6ff1975ab3cd4931246b4804c8eb