Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 828b33bee33543ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.9 KB Created: 2020-08-01 09:36:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 04ac22e61889c46c59249f6418b0ddbd SHA-1: d95a01b07175f4b7ad74ea134d9a72796effc53a SHA-256: 828b33bee33543eee34272eca88297a0dea40b5625698864bfe58f5119850670
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a redirector link to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though obfuscated, contains text suggesting it's an 'academic appeal letter sample', likely a lure. The presence of numerous PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests an attempt to obscure the malicious redirector or host a large number of lures. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=academic+appeal+letter+sample In PDF document text
    • http://files.traughberlaw.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695288/dewaregun-rolexufulerud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.childproofingcolorado.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637043/bopuwusunok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rpcrentals.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740547/9357424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.travelswithatoddler.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814097/zaliwabelej.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/1/0431/4464/2715/files/mineniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9148/3031/files/heroku_push_master.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5597/1492/files/32677088986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8532/3683/files/ravebivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8612/7009/files/pharmacy_tech_practice_exam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1698/6534/files/dabigamifepaxuseti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6201/8727/files/50132162991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5778/2690/files/gofonapot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1659/3312/files/xubovabowuguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6037/9286/files/rebapizosofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/18491093394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3845/7504/files/36445956360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0668/0484/files/55671095544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4092/4063/files/pokagaxuxabibopofewop.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000075ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75EF 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 7e295a113fe5b7aab8a8fd8b86464146b340d82eb1da137abfd743066db8a3e8
font_01_sfnt_off00008791.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8791 10300 bytes
SHA-256: a32ddf27d76dd999530b6bf4546e9e3697c6784da7c5dc4a4304490fa564d2d2

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