Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77ab3c37d29f77ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.1 KB Created: 2020-08-04 23:30:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 9244352f52a2b6089e9c003d795c4de2 SHA-1: 365e40f85d883ed16e589f4bf7207a13b0bd5f29 SHA-256: 77ab3c37d29f77eacae1abbadead4092c7f49ea6a67d92d1e2d87c74432a5e01
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a primary link identified as a malicious redirector. This redirector, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=baraton+university+fee+structure+pdf', is designed to phish users by impersonating a university fee structure. The presence of numerous external PDF links further suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content.

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=baraton+university+fee+structure+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.delynclp.wales/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437376/7205249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sarahabel.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814272/vawivuzebopade-xuvuvevipa-mafelitaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.companionsofchrist.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969375/3234800.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/1/0432/5074/5512/files/17385244607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/damegadunuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8275/2935/files/widagizupubuvop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5208/1053/files/41617687197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2065/6545/files/27735505484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0212/5733/files/fobotavuwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3877/6223/files/euclidean_algorithm_gcd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7522/1157/files/dojekadibarameta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4768/2201/files/tijokukirirutebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6334/4294/files/big_ideas_math_algebra_1_california_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1381/6995/files/70273492740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zotogobujadafozafinuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8052/4710/files/96734682513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7258/5888/files/kadojoguxunomopulu.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_off00006eb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EB5 5212 bytes
SHA-256: 341d8c20a0af6532d230eaa6a053ed3adaae270322930918d6f1f2498b95a111
font_01_sfnt_off00008088.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8088 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 0dee67a339c1b013188d5eedc5a54e867c5d2ffe941714b978c4780476d9a58d
font_02_sfnt_off0000a4b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA4B0 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34