Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a91854873f431fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.8 KB Created: 2020-08-28 01:30:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d7cc6ebf76585b7fbdf89c349aca7b86 SHA-1: e8f50020e17a672064c7189c93c18eec6aecb805 SHA-256: 7a91854873f431fcfc63004e89b58b9cf7896cefa029463425097a257baa2a3e
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are identified as SEO link farms and malicious redirectors. The primary redirector, 'ttraff.com', is used to lure victims with keywords like 'hibbeler mechanics of materials 10th', suggesting a phishing or scam attempt disguised as a free download. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of embedded URLs points towards an attempt to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=hibbeler+mechanics+of+materials+10th In PDF document text
    • http://files.waiaholenurserygardenandfloralgifts.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775023/9425a7c704a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guwilubo.soniawilliamsart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453133/wokuxafitiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nationalchildrensdayuk.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409861/sevogixetomeroka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lamar58.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411199/fajizipibelaper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitaf.exploratorypractice.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710712/d61cbd2ab20.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/1/0428/3724/6118/files/budowovitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2526/7877/files/actuarial_formulae_and_tables.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3964/6108/files/70648143733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0223/8888/files/22489159118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1044/8795/files/bojubemexebopewefamuziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3313/2184/files/dasubulute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6237/6101/files/2018_calendar_template_september.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4065/2960/files/36843652458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4211/1650/files/61774600309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9371/1261/files/50907192692.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_off00008e26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E26 5204 bytes
SHA-256: 40e6a0f2de50f5b1637eb7f400ed52807391fca9c074a9302ad875551436a125
font_01_sfnt_off00009f9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F9B 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 189959ac5bf99ff4ea713eb99cd5753c8d3b5ed15f5bb603cde9fc9b092d47d8
font_02_sfnt_off0000c396.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC396 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230