Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c8bd03074de633c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.7 KB Created: 2020-08-10 12:12:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 65cbdc2e5fef436353f1729ffcfde86d SHA-1: 273c42307db5850c18183e0fc46eecfbf3476c02 SHA-256: 7c8bd03074de633c38df2bf25ed8d7068e719c6ac1b4b2473b502897f671b0e7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many benign, indicates a link farm strategy to improve SEO and potentially distribute malicious 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.com/pify?keyword=cartesian+robot+design+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.missflowersclassroom.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636903/9821875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.abideinhiminc.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410952/a4021756015cde.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.becauseiamawoman.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739060/totamam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bevmcclellanrobynfear.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874067/9588005.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/1/0435/9946/2558/files/apprendre_l_criture_arabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2675/0357/files/play_david_banner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2906/7933/files/52062160031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1321/8210/files/72292499054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4272/5275/files/fufufur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2505/6412/files/basic_electronics_components_checking.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2250/0518/files/dagikugetigenagejaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8166/2628/files/vajimoson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9508/1625/files/65147041470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7917/2257/files/77747546602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3796/5986/files/49194587957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/25781613666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/7383/4901/files/5437968523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5366/2883/files/92614590327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8649/5396/files/gejunajaxenuser.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off0000aeb4.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xAEB4 17524 bytes
SHA-256: c1d307ec0aff0585565f601cea6540c7652ef72374a150bf29add506f73cafc7
font_00_sfnt_off000079d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79D0 5220 bytes
SHA-256: 6e234b749c070da9883f9be14b3cf8137de025ebed94f685661961a6823ec35b
font_01_sfnt_off00008b97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B97 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 7ab6a68e4b1fdc3d44c615abee3a01e45e187bb80f5732157c29b38dd9feba54