Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71a0b36710b336bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.9 KB Created: 2020-08-08 05:55:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 544f421695588ba4b190fc3e69fb7a0d SHA-1: f0fe9cb01164ca873ba52d47e28f92d50fcb4e5a SHA-256: 71a0b36710b336bfe153df6e9ffe54a36e4459a22c496e1baa1306013134b4e0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that appears to be part of an SEO link farm for phishing. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to the same redirector URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious links as legitimate content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=muhammad+al+ghazali+books+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ogdcl-nthp.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071312/xolajudojobibukojuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zodemab.christianmeditationrookies.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453133/19610844eb50ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levux.saxonquill.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482995/eaf2c405d147dbb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.markferickson.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453917/902e2b05d34b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.onedaymorefitness.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740298/7027145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4215/8245/files/67383695223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2775/1321/files/jemarofujodavidajukukati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3758/files/47426829006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/43778875991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0778/6651/files/bonatedexozotuwawigotizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9865/1288/files/52536987579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9181/2767/files/consonant_clusters_activities.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7810/6779/files/htps_windows._github._com.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5685/6230/files/hotel_accountant_interview_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1576/5159/files/samsung_sm-_g900a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7143/1065/files/60586308462.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_007_off00016797.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x16797 22364 bytes
SHA-256: 4fd49877d06525a5c30e08813e2a2e377f612ca2452819e09c9cdefb0b41c542
font_00_sfnt_off00012e46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E46 5196 bytes
SHA-256: 505c12d2415c5d0c81141ad585957b1d31eb24451fc3deadb983f7fb53ee9d0a
font_01_sfnt_off00013ff5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FF5 12312 bytes
SHA-256: 3cb6da15ca6d13b9ee0e80ccbfc8b233400a5545f5f2cb64ff113e41d2ba3df4
font_03_sfnt_off00018db5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18DB5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230