Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80e1c47bb3c27a49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.4 KB Created: 2020-08-13 21:28:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f23a66db0568921bffa89b39a7410a9b SHA-1: 1c8ab39f8196ea2d4114c212f26036b502397ee3 SHA-256: 80e1c47bb3c27a495243162293c63f2611b18f46980a80e5928609544cc4ff83
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is known to host malicious content. The document body and heuristics indicate a lure related to 'software application developer information', suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The embedded links likely serve to distribute further malicious payloads or lead to credential harvesting pages.

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=software+application+developer+information In PDF document text
    • http://files.rossarts.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740462/4738178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jirov.threegirlsquilting.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712380/vurenubesupedibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hlhas.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483550/wuvoxipepuzan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.studentsagainstnicotine.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775092/8923788.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/1/0434/8359/4909/files/botw_update_cemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2620/9175/files/halide_edip_advar_ateten_gmlek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5812/7270/files/96053578641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3082/3583/files/dermatitis_atopik_bayi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1381/6995/files/mipegepatetilarik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7256/0031/files/a_monster_calls_chapter_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3214/9148/files/jopoxodobivog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5704/5913/files/82998661304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6686/5302/files/semowugisinemanejuvaludaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5460/4198/files/garawetuwugogexujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tikodizexosuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7064/4631/files/reduce_resolution_mac.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_off00007948.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7948 5380 bytes
SHA-256: cafeb057c892202be77a12095c9b157dd17d9266c1dca590a691f8e82ee6fa1a
font_01_sfnt_off00008b8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B8F 10872 bytes
SHA-256: b710b9417c35b2b468a716f1bb1db48fe817543a7c58484ba0b2a4ec3fb1fa71