Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ef14dbb8debbf03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-07-28 21:40:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a823d087b9403963aa231227283907d4 SHA-1: f5f880e525b1c0649c85c6a564440872b1f4d9e8 SHA-256: 6ef14dbb8debbf035e43c954668659237ed8d83977ec35952a913625b2632490
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.com, which is used to redirect users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to "persuasive speech outline pdf", likely a lure to entice users to click the embedded links.

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=persuasive+speech+outline+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.seacopartsintl.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776225/1295733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tricotting.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968984/vesuzebifoje_fofuteputi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fawkhamridingclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776245/nodixuto-pudiwanasexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.soundmethoddjservice.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384171/3420729.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/1/0429/9938/2170/files/91050034233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6394/3074/files/muvopaxejiwoxusamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8945/3473/files/fusaxenokigitanaduwasogod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2068/9306/files/10293706109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9258/2293/files/11251055153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6942/3257/files/delagodadoxevorexoxisaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4886/9786/files/90534668941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/ninitegabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9775/9648/files/rujufutuvir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2226/2178/files/48322413039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/99289858455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7329/0908/files/tisekojaderetofire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8528/2980/files/lujabepudazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1423/2996/files/toviketepefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5625/1555/files/jowalugulalebawuwuxa.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_off000070c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70C2 5184 bytes
SHA-256: 841dc84b956438699c04016fd0e4ce09a8fcb47d98b81abe9cc080fca4465373
font_01_sfnt_off0000825c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x825C 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 84ddc37a93eb5ab130bdf8a0268900c84297b97b5a1f386084e21fb2835b6e3a