Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7af679a1a197786f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-03 01:03:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 405ece86bb6834738de3ef4567648342 SHA-1: 1240308ec84d02a37279c7ab8cfe5805149cf967 SHA-256: 7af679a1a197786f76d50ce9469607aba753979b43d33fa385987dc4eeecab97
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDF files, presented as a "free download" lure for a popular guide. It redirects users through a malicious redirector URL, ttraff.cc, which is part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a redirector link confirms a malicious intent to lead users to harmful 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.cc/pify?keyword=adventures+in+middle+earth+loremasters+guide+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.anchoredinrowayton.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740949/gidefejanosolo_damevimoruzojok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hswestmi.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131436981/xabuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.techniquejobs.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710624/3138880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dentalexplorations.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740563/6b17a84f2d96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.margarethigginson.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813582/c5e8149b11ff.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/1/0435/2131/0875/files/fuxewokezufod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8742/9785/files/80836477291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5840/5275/files/39552303317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8658/5749/files/tosowumaweru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6123/8168/files/75013333085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8982/1847/files/wavodoginew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7646/0447/files/jejiwiberif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5649/5769/files/46259104687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4065/2960/files/dorerevuvotusekorepabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5661/0971/files/46262465324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8305/4757/files/70016223609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4054/6714/files/91028585592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5651/9585/files/52667541143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/24375498268.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_off00006c6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C6B 5504 bytes
SHA-256: 9ad780fcb61c9fbb9ae950649072d312cca2d53bd9e5bf69103645b80888a0cd
font_01_sfnt_off00007f05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F05 9640 bytes
SHA-256: 3cb20e3bf35f1e6e4280e46b664cdd8eb80db55246395e0148d079bfb6958bb4