Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d653f2a46897cae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-13 23:29:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 47565a8962b55e478f0100b200ff7bf6 SHA-1: 454a90bc9bd9994994620d0b5429c59c0fb9014c SHA-256: 6d653f2a46897cae61a18c109afb3289694bef71d3947899a2ead30a6b3bd688
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, masquerading as an educational worksheet. The primary link, 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=circling%20and%20writing%20compound%20sentences%20worksheet', is identified as a malicious redirector, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict, and the presence of many embedded links suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes.

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/wb?keyword=circling%20and%20writing%20compound%20sentences%20worksheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.fourthquarterdigital.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776462/bb433b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ribbonsbyfir.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383247/vapebojokajol_wudesufodipe_lafopijogijiz_runumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.whbaptist.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406234/mofoxa.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/1/0433/0972/7912/files/dawn_of_war_tau.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3876/9303/files/austria_road_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0467/4727/files/74327953620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5031/1579/files/fedaturejip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7342/8888/files/bumedopivujuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8402/5751/files/skf_double_row_cylindrical_roller_bearing_catalogue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4647/7725/files/xxx_passwords_hacked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9724/4316/files/math_teacher_resume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3478/files/random_string_javascript.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3480/3352/files/putomosufotugusib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xigidewepiwunabifaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3897/3857/files/acrostichum_aureum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2376/1571/files/bufedazezegagal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8353/9366/files/bevebutege.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_off000064a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64A4 5548 bytes
SHA-256: 6ec927d756d539269030b3130c01325633bfe0deb5aa93851b7b04dfc9beaa66
font_01_sfnt_off00007759.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7759 12544 bytes
SHA-256: d7dc98e4661834e2483bba747017b341a6a9eb9b05fb2a3575b47cdce8e2f2c3