Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fb3c6eeb632a75e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.2 KB Created: 2020-08-14 18:20:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 76d263570edd2b9d6d51f8edf1547b96 SHA-1: 6e28b0d8fdce454dcd3d154635ff83d8eb5a86e3 SHA-256: 7fb3c6eeb632a75ed94595d7a55c7eb0be80d2f3355a22ca9e41c52d30a94a71
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including links to known malicious redirectors and a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=badder+than+most', is a critical finding. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it's the intended lure. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=badder+than+most In PDF document text
    • http://benuveve.andreanelson.studio/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164128/turajoturowov_fezuvesusanabaj_lelobafobixasod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ahimsaveganliving.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739287/neraga-poxatizidit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mumivem.bluemountainsafricanvioletsaus.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437987/xeboletudasoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.amselectric.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378993/6639515.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/40323832667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3720/3364/files/spartan_mountain_master_chassis_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3964/6108/files/lepima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0138/8953/files/53592783055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5788/8932/files/honda_eu2000i_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4927/1975/files/70574747393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8697/8984/files/luvalofevalikab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5769/3347/files/42081211092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8370/3206/files/65137287446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5071/9642/files/bebuvomafipuzopulivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8841/8718/files/lezikoterusuwekubusivelis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6559/0438/files/keparobak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5108/1114/files/wajuwanetevunofedul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5141/7751/files/20867052295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6230/5702/files/xoxalapatovaturufavufe.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_off0000507c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x507C 5084 bytes
SHA-256: cdf995c1e7c9b4638d7e545850f42670c68c91c127534ead5fb08da61b371d0e
font_01_sfnt_off0000618d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x618D 10104 bytes
SHA-256: 37e99ab2d67a6831ac2020b85f0056a87ac954e98ccda82deb9b09b2ca4c365e