Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 753ebf0bab1594f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.1 KB Created: 2020-08-09 14:28:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 90944d62bd6064e225e287f75a51aabf SHA-1: f3e4f941bf0a61b2720e5d47cbd2b739ca17038f SHA-256: 753ebf0bab1594f4ef5b196a64f890c0b463c596d1a112dda12d27b1b8fd26bd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to an SEO redirector service (ttraff.cc) which in turn links to other PDFs. This suggests a link farm or phishing campaign designed to drive traffic to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

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.cc/pify?keyword=archaeology+magazine+2020+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://femerafe.tautelab.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398367/terapagufepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ricor.info/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380052/nuxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aquabydesign.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969888/495522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.deltatechindustrialpark.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814783/nowibadebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bethelfriends.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483603/tepuritazadi_bimikipe_zujivuvuzuvavir.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/1/0433/8778/1276/files/runutasuxomubixirapamaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2833/3222/files/9722789063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7197/7110/files/wii_u_mii_qr_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9966/1223/files/target_return_policy_no_receipt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9959/4656/files/kefufomosoromulepigowemiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6966/1589/files/zamijabojosupurej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/29942388251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5095/1066/files/zojatirew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6042/8962/files/nolilasekenegirabilikox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6268/9946/files/nananelazafebufo.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006726.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6726 5512 bytes
SHA-256: beeba4578a910bad6e2488e25183091d2cd717dfdde589850de65a21a7ecb542
font_01_sfnt_off000079b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79B1 10108 bytes
SHA-256: f4e2a92ffedce1677f0ac7abd39a261c5c6bda31cc1b84ca1389d7ec65cadbe1
font_02_sfnt_off00009c90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C90 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 713933360072c9d59346590fad668f98c3603c6d2b72ed941ce85481f6af0b74
font_03_sfnt_off0000b122.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB122 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378