Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72bea498293f2168…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-08-02 15:01:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4306ec6d794407a65292c13a01580634 SHA-1: a812e6fe6cca2f9e33400bed9050a3871d809d91 SHA-256: 72bea498293f216831a0f3c7b59b1d698ad56271984f0a082ad707caea0153ed
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. The document body and embedded links suggest a lure to download a study guide, but the actual destination is a malicious URL. The presence of multiple PDF links and a redirector indicates an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for information.

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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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=chris+bryant+ccna+study+guide+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.scottishwheelchaircurling.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775228/3a26326e1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fcalynn.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637631/pobulopu-fiwudesow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shawneecabinets.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382583/dulutorefopipaf.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://files.bestmusicteacherever.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776065/d1becc61fc2b55d.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/1/0440/0339/3694/files/dokkan_battle_resurrection_f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3400/7973/files/lufufevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8139/1514/files/kigudulonafupape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3822/0181/files/15869779581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7849/1041/files/97086717595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6377/9240/files/najosijukukukijomupife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2338/5247/files/javubigutefimerakaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1503/7351/files/19592106001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1631/4277/files/90185055854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3434/5625/files/17986655661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8099/1388/files/niwefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3957/1611/files/ninalipunikowirobezavidet.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006d96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D96 5420 bytes
SHA-256: 48d0804634fa6be04b6edf931014909a439e573eb33fe0977ecbd390b173773e
font_01_sfnt_off00007ffd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FFD 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 1e2dc2103733b77915d0e0a3660c00ed9a3372614911cff6ff05ab252d0a0c39
font_02_sfnt_off0000a4a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA4A2 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e