Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7871ca415a57a01d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-07-28 11:40:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: afa8558c78767e34efdad4a0e6957ad4 SHA-1: 17db73b33c074e3615d19da695bf48978d5ad33c SHA-256: 7871ca415a57a01d61bf375e388182526871ccb4f169f3493d896d4efc6e06ab
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=camtasia+user+manual+pdf, is identified as a redirector to potentially harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a 'Camtasia user manual'. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score support 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=camtasia+user+manual+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.kswatsondesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398117/rovizumazij_pevov_golaxitaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tzununahealthyself.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681145/d08ca9451cb46.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mylocalboard.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813447/f9f76fc1e947bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.insomnilacq.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606046/d44a85f989a0457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oregoncabinetdesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164324/negesabinodo-vofobi-vosomu-bofudafoxuxuso.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/1/0431/2514/5760/files/26502514115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3655/7987/files/levumowiduxuvofurevar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6004/4710/files/dakafuwitizowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0264/2075/files/xupevotuwisedegogojufire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4423/9517/files/fugojelekusuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6482/8838/files/tosijedufewamafoxuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8092/4837/files/jipikibizixurigepesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6014/3014/files/55014601861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6710/5687/files/19054018877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1097/4108/files/54236371257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8935/3120/files/3664939852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8276/7779/files/ziloguru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6797/4556/files/76274408298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5468/6617/files/guxoxapikekixol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6795/7658/files/jiwowuxawotuzetanofud.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_off00006910.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6910 4984 bytes
SHA-256: 972ca03677bb708edf2c9dc2ffd55f177f18ead0df8f7ed3d47935beab9b6872
font_01_sfnt_off000079e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79E3 9900 bytes
SHA-256: 301fed4063b818b8beb0b7a4d60fa42bbd1bee37394f2fb5da02919321a9777b