Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84c7ec0f58bb9244…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.7 KB Created: 2020-09-18 01:06:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 374767ef2d5140c9f075c74c8f391614 SHA-1: a36eef601ded75c3e744eb9bd02c4efb03010dd3 SHA-256: 84c7ec0f58bb924469fe873c61eb7f94d5c84d4a1cebe04e3c44f4687b1f63cd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.club) which is flagged as malicious. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to lure users with deceptive content like '4th grade gold dust or bust script'. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=4th+grade+gold+dust+or+bust+script, which likely leads to a phishing or malware download site.

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.club/wix?keyword=4th+grade+gold+dust+or+bust+script In PDF document text
    • http://zotigide.thegolphincollection.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871674/567af6fdc9d0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.schoolmastermiller.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739379/0b44fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.goldkeel.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131436956/d3d932a1490d7c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.angela-paul.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070469/ziwubega_konidojagej_pemesazefesifak.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/1/0435/7016/7967/files/how_to_exit_nano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4600/1045/files/powerpoint_templates_science_project.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9737/5399/files/nugobajodamiwofazutelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2544/9628/files/39633602369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7013/6218/files/ropemogawoxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9126/9534/files/hallelujah_chorus_handel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7788/6367/files/liver_cancer_information_in_marathi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://525e7f9d-e5e0-4963-b311-84b9ffbb82a6.filesusr.com/ugd/f523c3_dbd3da8ceba34a19ba8e50d71c631f59.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cd99dd4f-a341-4ff2-842e-5bbe8792f0b0.filesusr.com/ugd/29c71c_b1d0a6be67cf44eeb9f39edb3ffe32c1.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off00005863.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5863 5468 bytes
SHA-256: 6cb382e0047970ceb09b8ba0ed5f44d6abde110f93aa58473fdd06f90b19351f
font_01_sfnt_off00006af5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AF5 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 8cfd45268ca4bddc9903610a428c584faa73a9a1e1a656ce92c1eae7a0c2b702