Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7748396433280c9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-09 00:42:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ef846178ad67bd579f5e513de36e8703 SHA-1: 543df0b164d16770e73c0be997ad11392e627e94 SHA-256: 7748396433280c9c4df7d7f3b9654a0e4375e9fb2516f58e06d6ac2cd3d076e6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous links designed to mimic search engine results, leading users to a redirector URL (https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=borderlands+gloria+anzaldua+pdf+download) which likely serves malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm heuristic further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the document's structure and embedded links are indicative of a social engineering attack.

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=borderlands+gloria+anzaldua+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.cjnyc.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437493/674e22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.franckeart.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738943/b53a489a1de7839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.makingwithwords.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164321/3c54f9c4c3e16f5.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/1/0432/5389/1232/files/pefolirasajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5136/9127/files/silewopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6769/5509/files/dujataf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8649/6415/files/the_wrong_turn_7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4093/9933/files/kelune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5190/0310/files/46339224375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2937/2832/files/moleva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3636/8283/files/18992135566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9515/3058/files/low_back_exercise_aaos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2670/0696/files/95151366345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tobilefoseparavako.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005987.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5987 5400 bytes
SHA-256: c99bb9311403a034a863b09adff457ba29712d900abeaa602c295aa7061d1c36
font_01_sfnt_off00006c13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C13 13224 bytes
SHA-256: 6ab7aae647f8bdeb031ab25602e43fd2d272ebd8e39905c38716eab1ef1bc429