Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7baa29dcf768987e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.9 KB Created: 2020-08-12 06:11:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c32e3fa781eb0aa38e6edf5b90d319e4 SHA-1: 4e7885b96f1eaabf8fdcbc0998ab1c4b547e9e88 SHA-256: 7baa29dcf768987efd2d13caf65600d2f44a1bd963571067741c33a87b1bbc0b
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, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=customary+law+cases+pdf', which is also flagged by heuristics as a malicious redirector. The presence of a 'Clipboard command execution lure' heuristic indicates the document may instruct the user to interact with their clipboard in a way that could lead to command execution.

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.
  • 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.
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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=customary+law+cases+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.theearnestoptimist.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712080/kemaga_govolariraxisod_zomitaralazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxopilev.baldingandblogging.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969754/lezakuk-zetozurawe-mejekidutad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.castillejacotton.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815137/e074761e.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/19227598733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7240/5157/files/melumudutiduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9037/8903/files/38964590612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2529/9606/files/gutajunup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8343/2096/files/60012352126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6274/6517/files/adinkra_symbols_and_meaning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2068/1369/files/luronunanemajixirejodes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7727/8627/files/bavasarevidezijozutej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7006/0704/files/bruno_mars_just_the_way_you_are_piano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/31052941417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8096/5534/files/child_care_act_of_1969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5397/9550/files/45624883395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0659/0106/files/29990389778.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_off00009ffa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9FFA 5400 bytes
SHA-256: 29958c9e0c35c5658c2cd2002158e65f5c6337b319730914a7edea9943359e6b
font_01_sfnt_off0000b258.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB258 12316 bytes
SHA-256: c1660dc7ebd331c7168ea617bea603fa7153cc836fa8043b23c6736d2d81b175