Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 832380cf93faaac8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.5 KB Created: 2020-08-18 21:43:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5ba711d4f74df6eb254abdf97c068823 SHA-1: cb1e20e530b711bbd7327fde2a0cf4e0a11c0edc SHA-256: 832380cf93faaac87467ee92650bed81bec6d937de555c4d0695f328970345e6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links, including one to a redirector infrastructure at `ttraff.cc`. This redirector is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination, which is a common tactic for phishing and scam campaigns. The presence of numerous PDF links suggests an attempt to create a link farm for SEO manipulation, potentially to drive traffic to malicious sites.

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.cc/pify?keyword=nigeria+snacks+recipes+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://powif.krishnayogastudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775350/4958039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ecpizzeria.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453045/603b3869a3ece06.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/1/0432/0513/2445/files/vevifipoxezoxepovokusobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6769/5511/files/english_bible_niv_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0813/1233/files/94546336590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4667/4336/files/alanganallur_jallikattu_video_2012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2804/6233/files/zugefumuxipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7777/1162/files/implosion_never_lose_hope_apk_award.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8364/5599/files/85509291251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0533/0083/files/molotudesodivefobedizum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8494/8380/files/jilulilalesapevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1014/3902/files/30155076298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9191/1066/files/1518216285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4976/3487/files/telugu_calendar_2020_september.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008377.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8377 5324 bytes
SHA-256: 57c6d92396e1221abd4bf4525428cb366b57d5d925d955a43546306ee1d33d2e
font_01_sfnt_off000095a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x95A0 1800 bytes
SHA-256: a36eee06fef6ce219692c4ec918276ac99413e4fd1e3666e4031624f9289d620
font_02_sfnt_off00009e2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E2D 10324 bytes
SHA-256: 3c27a06effe5088372c4e7fb8778d6710decc1c440cb55cd75397a9da2bb0a87