Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 866040ac774d42cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-07 23:15:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bf3a09abe426cf67f1f32d53c59fd670 SHA-1: 6a488776d9ea8973b4d2a5da4deb118f548260e2 SHA-256: 866040ac774d42cc0f2dbc2d300e682ed4cdc6ec56a04253867b6ef2ffb58f2a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the redirector, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external links, including a link farm, indicates a phishing or SEO poisoning tactic.

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=advanced+statistical+methods+for+the+analysis+of+large+data+sets+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.yatesclassroom.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741397/wusixivike-kafudimoj-fowuvib-xagit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cdconggiaovietnamvic.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398322/8998755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hopespringsfarm.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383892/zikuxujekorozojal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2396/5080/files/alamo_drafthouse_winchester_menu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0916/0862/files/15882270641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0796/5345/files/thyristor_controlled_rectifier.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4211/8555/files/zepukinutapopizuzofirafob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7276/5598/files/2383844870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9166/5830/files/36176271111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5886/4028/files/56764213055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/dezuruvasubovamobariwasij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/31321710084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5216/3482/files/xezukikekusesajetaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2260/6759/files/56801676008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0593/3730/files/past_simple_past_perfect_exercises_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0913/8075/files/wukapinabasefewudo.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_off00006a8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A8C 5508 bytes
SHA-256: b93addafa162ce5b15ec5ffa5644504aeac39102a9e1e3f737632d5b07f95699
font_01_sfnt_off00007d27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D27 10624 bytes
SHA-256: f9b63fcc634aa950fd5d2dfeb71a69c245001793b530055153edf77267a6c0d9
font_02_sfnt_off0000a176.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA176 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3