Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80e248a5d1e6a34b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 21:37:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e2c9d78542a85a5772c1e8c25d665a2d SHA-1: 1fe7d76d75a1f5719e2b0ebe7bce1a27be2120cc SHA-256: 80e248a5d1e6a34bb6f10caff1c7057390ef88ba455c30ce4550c7800b0da713
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to redirector infrastructure, specifically identified as a malicious redirector and an SEO link farm. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=adverbial+phrase+pdf, which is likely used to obscure the final destination and phish for user credentials or distribute further malware. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to these URLs, reinforcing the malicious intent.

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=adverbial+phrase+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.pjcareyarchitecture.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874435/ginevavenurikar_kibukunukonejaz_susimapomepisat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.northernbeachescleanupcrew.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739450/1b928af2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fourthgradestingrays.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740049/7449715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.manupagainstbullying.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637302/6605148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xevegi.kelseysq.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380042/2396577.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/1/0432/2482/6014/files/desoxuzabebunemamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7044/5975/files/top_100_songs_of_1978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8620/8406/files/simixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5283/4711/files/zozalalon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5971/4971/files/godusulerusovufana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5711/8374/files/nuvokumulogimejune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4267/5608/files/mysql_command.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0499/1400/files/handbook_of_big_data_technologies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7969/5526/files/nuvodanos.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_off000092ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92AB 5320 bytes
SHA-256: 93c4842277ca78a68ef0fd03d6e01593de0d19caca202d6006ab736e65c4732d
font_01_sfnt_off0000a4ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA4BA 10176 bytes
SHA-256: e0b97968b50d4cd1c28f6398d10747f0acfaef3946096fe300ddaf7c5bccd1cb