Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 762656f64ca37241…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 20:59:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c8b3b88f352ffbccd1b5a32ebd1b6fa8 SHA-1: 5e8b830828c3f604d3869cae23ddea34b4da58f6 SHA-256: 762656f64ca372413dca906e6bbd1a8045b06726e679b4037e2de23f58fac704
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, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=character+development+pdf', is flagged as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links strongly indicate an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

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=character+development+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.martinhartfilms.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437380/c493818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thephotocopiedhipster.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775936/4762693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.womanstouchnj.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437677/vivizilopiz-tidofivebulo-retaninov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.heathernormansmith.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739452/4187362c95a4966.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/1/0430/3106/8823/files/didagalokisanefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6990/5825/files/titaxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1312/7844/files/naruto_shippuden_episode_336_english_dubbed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9448/9755/files/82744431960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2761/1295/files/38876892001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4204/5090/files/11536862526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1540/4702/files/symmetry_surgical_catalog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/75609531209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/0858/5891/files/how_to_know_higher_worlds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6511/4775/files/34323785799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7876/9045/files/jakewepuzo.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_off000085ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85FF 5040 bytes
SHA-256: ed8ad35105ed01b42552cc174eed3b649952ac62dc81c61a40ca36507ea2b88e
font_01_sfnt_off0000970b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x970B 10332 bytes
SHA-256: dc4bd41ac4163214fd10f2d9fa4ef76227f6d32ff39a82fa6621cbbbd5bb64fd
font_02_sfnt_off0000b9db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9DB 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333