Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7edfda043b5b0094…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 19:01:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5198125a919d6d22e49da34f16d09290 SHA-1: f95228f6c4f8bd73eb09ead9e3acfe3ccec66bf8 SHA-256: 7edfda043b5b009440362760eff0d2fc68a645493699e87254d3221199dcd53a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) which is flagged as malicious. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt, likely using SEO tactics to lure victims. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, reinforcing the phishing lure.

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=mo+better+blues+chords+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.streetash.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453431/da5da7af1f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mendocinosportsclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969614/kisijekawili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sanctuarynotdeportation.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071019/gebinibajukibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.joelewczuk.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739180/potivusaruxoro_zowafufenaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.slingsandroundabouts.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814666/8e4b4.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/1/0433/8820/7254/files/53869164798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4456/8216/files/causation_in_criminal_law.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9956/2911/files/15295010471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7387/2807/files/24173762836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6509/8908/files/53839243894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2513/6792/files/definition_of_proximate_analysis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3470/6083/files/jasojamopunolorusumuwet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dadimutixiwukigojubiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5504/6037/files/associativismo_e_organizaes_voluntrias.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9436/7644/files/barron_s_600_toeic_vocabulary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6728/4383/files/rezobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8153/9483/files/zunazanuvitenejodet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1501/2511/files/behringer_x32_owners_manual.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000048a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x48A3 5176 bytes
SHA-256: 695b21f0c690fee796aef01cb41a279031c477f55a5292db216d94b19566c808
font_01_sfnt_off00005a3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A3D 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 801be614fdf094a2a8dd2f8db87b4c29abbbd802eaeeed341cd73d334ee26ca6

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