Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 742771d19069330c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-15 03:32:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 246165826b6fbeac0206d274ed7d9565 SHA-1: 8ea782015c4e719d818401d3fbcefd89ef471906 SHA-256: 742771d19069330c75cc623007071e22408d20c940f903d1d8fad01af028ff40
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 is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same redirector URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading further content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=building+and+other+construction+workers+act+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.drkatescranialschool.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069839/3373548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiretifa.wegnerauctioneers.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070458/mixipawe-kapiwofadunuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vowoxoma.healthwestrealty.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406592/7302992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapisuw.papayabranchboutique.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682663/6562256.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/1/0439/6823/3630/files/allemande_bwv_1013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3964/6108/files/81639672797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6770/3450/files/79326502992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9922/6279/files/louvre_hotels_group_annual_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/bodadajigewodozisidezufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8022/8759/files/ragatezakik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lavatorumagenikezelun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8893/6102/files/campbell_biology_in_focus_2014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9860/3669/files/bijixixewazapirevubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4486/4149/files/types_of_algebraic_functions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/mopusowuzaloku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5832/3865/files/louisiana_literacy_test_answers.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006644.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6644 5624 bytes
SHA-256: 343a4fbc4b3ddf945cd38ad5481275f2631a5211b963c4a582615514e3e26683
font_01_sfnt_off0000796d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x796D 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 15957c350bcd0c743a7f4ca40fe41ea77d1189a771607e686059f6775dc514a5

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