Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7087ffca1da87eb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-16 12:51:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e686f45c7ea1b4666ddbb5e3d8f46003 SHA-1: 265c9c7a2b3a848447f3381c9e40734f9d5a9116 SHA-256: 7087ffca1da87eb3c1f5d6015a73688f0f4539328d0dc86f39d477022298480e
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.cc) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this redirector URL and other URLs that appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the true malicious destination. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.cc/wb?keyword=printable%20letters%20worksheets%20for%20kindergarten In PDF document text
    • http://tukipuped.autolandcars.ca/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069934/ff81621ce10b2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fhbcfortmyers.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874612/viloroluxaf-pironu-wupekosemobikuz-padovup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.determinedart.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695388/vegopoxarid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.learningandbehavior.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969054/e3cb79b62f01.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/1/0437/6828/3294/files/govorijapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3740/8936/files/8325886924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1647/9132/files/movezuwagezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5804/4823/files/rig_veda_bhashya.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7453/4041/files/present_value_of_annuity_formula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2742/1608/files/ferolopenatekume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4842/6910/files/75840766032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7870/4536/files/12034669056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tazoxusejeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2602/0509/files/28113282540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0826/0258/files/52406309169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5698/8317/files/pafufeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0414/8382/files/42893668114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0575/2997/files/automotive_repair_workshop.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_off00006e27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E27 5464 bytes
SHA-256: c7508db2bbcf4af463d593f7a5828d121f3e24be4da89051fdd83e931d93665c
font_01_sfnt_off000080be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80BE 9828 bytes
SHA-256: d756e3437bae6ab3d6c6b2576f91b11d639cbf6b5d9cdd3085e55c9228b61097