Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82583ebfe3a90c7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.3 KB Created: 2020-09-04 21:57:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 29fe39d653114ce078473519702d6a4a SHA-1: 5808854e29ca0da54e9e2d5328ed709766ae4c56 SHA-256: 82583ebfe3a90c7f2866124291777ac58bf11beb3aa6528d9068207dabeb7577
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to an SEO redirector farm, with one prominent link leading to 'ttraff.club'. This redirector is flagged as malicious and is part of a likely phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise the malicious intent as a legitimate download for academic notes.

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.club/pify?keyword=alcohol+phenol+and+ether+notes+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d8e941_085267af97e54c61868aed18a3bbc649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_869ea1663a48477aac062d4ac3bcb323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ede58b_5117367e6a36475297727b17fc254292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33a2e4_0d6fd4e642cb47bb89cd933d0024c2fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/880a7e_dbf9326c2b0a47b0970788cfb07a7cc3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b09e1d_56a8a03ddef14221adf8d6a3592507cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/64d889_fe111cdd53df4a8bbcd76b55569462bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4031/8375/files/bagelodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4914/0902/files/28532470970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3609/0269/files/centrosema_pascuorum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9654/6216/files/game_bully_2_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3623/5160/files/98854296820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6572/9429/files/bahadur_film_video_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7035/6632/files/tipos_de_aprendizaje_visual_auditivo_y_kinestesico.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007f0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F0D 5232 bytes
SHA-256: ae63dbc9346183f40d261b992fd330fe1e6d4a5d8aaced85caed4401b86ce8bc
font_01_sfnt_off000090d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90D5 10080 bytes
SHA-256: 9e49f42329c926af9fbfb55cd0e2fd4e5665e2f6511b4866742d87859f74455c
font_02_sfnt_off0000b369.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB369 16072 bytes
SHA-256: 3da9309f7c28e01a20d15285b754fad9116e6eb7744d168a0fff2950d6122081