Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a5b4aa35756a3c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-13 23:50:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b90598fbed90c3e495dbbe74e43efa7c SHA-1: bc125093e9015b603ef9d36095288134e359df31 SHA-256: 7a5b4aa35756a3c3ddd733d554ec79bae2dc6463953f684234c3ba914053067f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is known to host malicious content. The document body, though obfuscated, contains the same lure text as the redirector URL, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of numerous SEO-optimized links points to a link farm or traffic generation scheme designed to distribute malicious payloads.

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=deformation+of+the+crust+continental+drift In PDF document text
    • http://files.catandcrow.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775045/tivekup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thepearloutletonbranchview.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683289/wesepakivoruwixajuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mvhsmajorslibrary.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380480/a716d247b6b8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hugsplus.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776180/muxumudugal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movozu.faithbaptistalturas.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380600/xukela.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/1/0428/4016/2470/files/putoxopivovoxewawamofajuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5317/1356/files/vowels_and_consonants_sounds_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6962/8828/files/mitsubishi_eclipse_service_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8371/9071/files/determination_of_carbohydrate_by_anthrone_method.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0789/3919/files/kurixajomokidutegamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0297/7700/files/wazemunev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8348/9687/files/abellio_greater_anglia_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8745/2576/files/naleduzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8679/1334/files/bafixuvamemopabomixupesek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9569/5268/files/gopamake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6155/7913/files/2809643349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8343/2096/files/zekuwefipagidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5733/9807/files/12858108442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1392/2206/files/gonaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4573/2007/files/sibamunedabizotujipok.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_off000068a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68A6 5260 bytes
SHA-256: a3d3b0175a33e280e5bd95b29419d64f0f1918673b388398640bd5656378acd2
font_01_sfnt_off00007a56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A56 10100 bytes
SHA-256: 532de578a8c660076fa82ed22f6a72d1748085fda626dae33fa24367a2c00168