Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85053ca4514d74b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-08-08 11:39:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7bd817f1793ebd8b5bab15bd2f9da72c SHA-1: 87af58ad7ab7285865c9a677b1a49526932d2bd8 SHA-256: 85053ca4514d74b3a19ebc612ff89857aad2bc885067feb51adbc35e0d30e2f4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a practice test, which is a common lure for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external links points towards an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

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/wb?keyword=pte%20general%20level%204%20practice%20test%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.rmpaintingintext.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379590/duxisuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruxogitem.icatracho.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398140/rifuwikozajiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.southernwildproducts.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398475/e551b643fb05.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/1/0428/0628/0355/files/79540223958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9775/9643/files/23045717408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6009/9222/files/46140442513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7792/7072/files/laugh_it_up_fuzzball_torrent.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8866/7034/files/wasofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1887/8114/files/worataj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7201/8845/files/85473718419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6341/8784/files/18609220972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3358/2998/files/40038667368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9385/9231/files/trochanteric_bursitis_exercises_nhs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3015/0309/files/nadafumediw.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5900 6452 bytes
SHA-256: 3edcca935a1decb3711a45a11354d423658b34ba7eb2ca4880ebe65cc077af1b
font_01_sfnt_off00006902.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6902 5472 bytes
SHA-256: 6a711db3ab2abb45ce8b2db99699350be46f3f5d8fc61cb62f9b808c7f613451
font_02_sfnt_off00007bb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BB8 2984 bytes
SHA-256: 3662cb743c9efaad197d21484c20f31dd107a1d14215e1b088a87bb4062020ae
font_03_sfnt_off0000879a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x879A 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 79e0092cd36e1604119e070692c0fdc585f9e39cebc8f83457ec938dace88927