Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71201bc73e72acca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.5 KB Created: 2020-08-31 09:28:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 27a469ab91fc8c06bfd0b278b5443459 SHA-1: cc53f5122dabca9f7508eb806a6a8cae22386c15 SHA-256: 71201bc73e72acca6b2846124403b7c527e0c74d0b67fc645d45bff68ecff86d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com. This redirector is used in conjunction with a lure for free book downloads, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the embedded links and the nature of the lure suggest an attempt to drive users to malicious content.

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/wix?keyword=b.ed+books+in+gujarati+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0d2908_aad829afd2f4466ca16c3afb1254c955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_efc6fe953ec6424396a962789aae88c5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9a1e20dd27f2416ea1efae8364f4157a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4456d4e8d39a47e0b54fa0663237473a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_aabcc7ab164b4acaa7215e490d6c237b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_765281d8729b4e3083c224be80ecbd8c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10b11f_601ef5a58f004aa6afb9687e4c468db8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/353d00_c7f3933fc0c840bba38133dde51d7281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fef806_67c6139895ac48d68ddc8e1c76c319c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/15ebe2_4f0c2e54b7604a8e8306484d96575b1d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5bb01c_227beaeb4e0e456da197437b27e6cc10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ea78e0_087cca7f76f34a9e96dce9a7b7983acc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3ed1f_0537dde156164dc78bf531211e6818a2.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006aee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AEE 5660 bytes
SHA-256: f5fb1ec15e952996acf9c53c8f1371d183f3c9329b3789f0d9a478f613a5932c
font_01_sfnt_off00007e61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E61 2968 bytes
SHA-256: 70e9fa59f42e61084c6df10e04094db470f04857c3df7c562fe67c4277ed0378
font_02_sfnt_off00008acc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8ACC 2320 bytes
SHA-256: 5e067315a2bd9524b6254977960f062bb129990ed69868068e29b4596197f3c8
font_03_sfnt_off0000951f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x951F 11972 bytes
SHA-256: 3cde8c30f931a3f78ca19312607ca22a9626042f042505d29f229b680d6110d0
font_04_sfnt_off0000bc08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC08 16224 bytes
SHA-256: a349519ccbdbca3d75704c2becf615ab37801eb1543272228454131dceb83acc
font_05_sfnt_off0000d191.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD191 5540 bytes
SHA-256: 261abcbb5c444923bf7c76f78aebe672e553505099d89e543af2c766c8705ca7