Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87b7e618aa2bfc49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-03 02:54:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e016eef0dfb8bc21e442da00c5b4e203 SHA-1: 93f76ec0ef4f1a3103ce24b36c72ff814e5b79ec SHA-256: 87b7e618aa2bfc49d8d38822798826f63d256f154087662a2407f866ddb8a4eb
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. The document body and heuristics suggest a phishing or scam lure, likely attempting to trick users into downloading further malicious content or providing sensitive information. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking for 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=nativity%20certificate%20format%20pdf%20ap In PDF document text
    • http://files.ygnaciocenter123.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437941/pimawuxadovofid_roremubodaxonoz_wapibol_vutuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.franksflybox.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814791/1fd6ae925f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tavah.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740049/nidowemusosit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.teachingreexplored.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775393/5274901.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/1/0433/5121/2200/files/68266318139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9186/8313/files/99554191720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4016/9366/files/befakejonob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1394/7041/files/xilawobusukadivegusevum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5670/1348/files/91700266219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7728/0671/files/vikodudisitusotoludapoten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7381/4182/files/9120064206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0684/4315/files/logukatidelafilep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7184/8100/files/20550379850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1522/4996/files/nizimeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4046/4281/files/what_is_an_instance_in_java.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/29883534071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6710/3645/files/gikalatozuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5177/8202/files/xilodavil.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_off00006802.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6802 4904 bytes
SHA-256: fd59f2306432d7e0fa34d58e4a32ff4e8076ea9b4f6a074e9aac3e3f382fea5b
font_01_sfnt_off000078be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78BE 10208 bytes
SHA-256: 61a232451fd87aea8d06a169aca01bfa1d11e7eb34e27f80c38100020293336b
font_02_sfnt_off00009bae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BAE 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34