Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77230772f6576b6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.8 KB Created: 2020-08-01 21:29:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4457a31e293aaaaffcee6de11ea8dc41 SHA-1: f42f74dbb2450b4476fffcd15ca6b093b61c54a0 SHA-256: 77230772f6576b6bdeac6cc597743db9bfcb3a96d77a7196f3b3168c9fa68079
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) which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the lure text 'How to evolve ninjask' and the malicious URL. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=how+to+evolve+ninjask In PDF document text
    • http://files.esibstudentsfront.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695749/50518ed8a82.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.moruyaanglican.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776644/bobulime_zivuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.backyardbirdadventures.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406173/kowajuxejabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bountifulpies.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874627/loxodedame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8219/4852/files/17430883132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5856/9128/files/rovuxanejovujofuvizawunin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8255/5297/files/dazogabogawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4011/1782/files/fetaniwazibejopefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5743/0176/files/bozonikalapubinapot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9425/2456/files/metode_aashto_1993_pdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4247/9000/files/39248035934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9263/1962/files/5058296796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0084/7781/files/bopevududex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2338/2166/files/lusovonope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9046/9283/files/vopudirux.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://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006b29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B29 4376 bytes
SHA-256: 49c4274087974c66771ae65c1c476eb9ce735a5a766c8ef783ef9f46358bb5a3
font_01_sfnt_off00007a8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A8A 4836 bytes
SHA-256: 98d1431fbdbf99b435eb6646eac14fb93da30e9e8ef4a21f12c0f24a15558902
font_02_sfnt_off00008b18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B18 6640 bytes
SHA-256: 1b2552555645ba9c8fed0a9237ac9045cea52447ec583a08b5e706a61f045f00
font_03_sfnt_off00009cd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CD6 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 4c70b918d898a452795776dfbe8dcb7091833b4c47259a66333c8990561c7753
font_04_sfnt_off0000c05a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC05A 2884 bytes
SHA-256: d4f4a45a95b330e441c2a1f99a9d19f85afbfcc475d62fc77ce8fa1b7417b3b9