Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bea45b9d038b46a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-02 14:38:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f194db8ec13519c7366bddef1ca569cf SHA-1: 306d6136a34295cb3720d2184d2bf305e87c860e SHA-256: 7bea45b9d038b46a6687946761e30c5c18d479c6400d7840a31cfcc1be0fee51
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to an SEO redirector, specifically `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=python+create+folder`, which is flagged as malicious. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or phishing campaign designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. The presence of many external PDF links further supports this, indicating an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content through a network of linked documents.

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=python+create+folder In PDF document text
    • http://files.clclife.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871494/seduto-satuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.falconathleticsnj.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398259/diketimujosuv-gavegovi-nobosusawa-tegeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.boxboardstheatre.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740443/tugisoveroro_figimapapanat_jogab.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/1/0427/8019/7031/files/57005035999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7810/6779/files/scp_cheat_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4267/6636/files/34116221742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8525/9159/files/47051346451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8307/9592/files/jacquie_lawson_birthday_cards.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0318/3258/files/82206773022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/86562581376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1463/5165/files/vojesironudesesalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/75130531250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/furupokexopaxabisovijuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4832/8603/files/novokipotenewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3685/8775/files/the_universal_traveler.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_off0000700d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x700D 5036 bytes
SHA-256: 6ad177808c7c43e96575406e09fce3e687097e8cd53a785a6d69b8e3eef0d4f8
font_01_sfnt_off00008131.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8131 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 1998775ef117ac2142f4d88ad7c08c96d8cb3352a687685cbcca89a0070a745f