Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fda9275ecc7e0d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-16 22:52:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8970e1300ab9c428efd7077975656b9f SHA-1: f5b22a3d17b4e8ff0607705489677001f04ef1c5 SHA-256: 7fda9275ecc7e0d56c9182f7a47a604bfdfb5975e1ea26bf2442c7528469af3c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, with a primary URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure for a "company structure template word". The embedded links, particularly the one to ttraff.com, are flagged as malicious redirectors, indicating an attempt to lead the user to a harmful site.

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=company+structure+template+word In PDF document text
    • http://files.radcliffchristianchurch.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813979/jagoka-sirerijuxobu.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/1/0432/6798/1474/files/cerament_bone_void_filler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/84005007378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3631/9645/files/dupasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0665/6666/files/76563127361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0744/3103/files/coordinate_plane_worksheets_pictures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2436/7266/files/26443984941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6202/4605/files/greatest_common_factor_and_least_common_multiple_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4959/9651/files/cambridge_advanced_learner_dictionary_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3410/7286/files/27169652571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7220/0608/files/nuwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0660/7012/files/48452443877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7950/7870/files/celine_dion_biography.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_off00006a07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A07 5316 bytes
SHA-256: f79bbb066070b230d8bcb8503bb1560c572141ea3bedb9b014136415caac4b55
font_01_sfnt_off00007c0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C0F 10160 bytes
SHA-256: 95d4ffcc16d6f79098c3844214425e9b7773c59a6588dc43156e60eb653e1734