Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e25f23024cd1f43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-19 03:26:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ea04a8913929ee234b62ec0d82c234d0 SHA-1: f58c593d68257a12dec82726c01166d5ab7127aa SHA-256: 7e25f23024cd1f43e5eaea40df9666eebdae1515a743e7fcf4cde75b5f28f7e1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to an SEO redirector service (ttraff.com). This indicates a phishing or scam attempt, likely to trick users into downloading malicious content or visiting a malicious site under the guise of a free download. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=format+r+code+online In PDF document text
    • http://files.muralsbykatielynn.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453934/lulinevepatumo-pulebilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cheerycards.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682171/1482067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jutibu.metrovinyl.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069759/dupewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toluloxa.anya-renoir.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606624/vaxanofuwarap.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/1/0431/7301/9808/files/makalah_askep_bronkopneumonia_pada_anak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8846/8376/files/53778901903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9112/4643/files/88162986109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1044/0862/files/wonuniro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4981/0080/files/37335014215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7517/3529/files/10281692093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6010/9210/files/27595548311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7063/3624/files/51219673216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1584/5541/files/roman_candide_en_arabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7016/0032/files/87259623763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5317/7237/files/rumejonifilipij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7865/5903/files/how_to_know_wifi_password_of_others.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_off0000658d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x658D 4864 bytes
SHA-256: f8976ed7b4390f1f7953ae0f3c0656f83fbfee495ed65b1a8904e328cb0eee6f
font_01_sfnt_off000075f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75F5 15844 bytes
SHA-256: 9f0fcd5a3a2e064c3c319268984fcae075817278a4c941b0bb11844cdafd32b0