Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 883d5bb97a66ceb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.1 KB Created: 2020-09-01 13:51:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a1fa644e28cdf90fab57361e1a3e4612 SHA-1: b31b16e1ac315dec9c2215cf01c327e2cbd4b0de SHA-256: 883d5bb97a66ceb6693bd1bd897c7b5a10b5927d0e4a9e922b57be7699990cae
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to known malicious infrastructure, specifically a URL associated with SEO link farming and phishing lures. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=enharmonic+tones+worksheet', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the PDF is designed to trick users into visiting a malicious site, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.me/wix?keyword=enharmonic+tones+worksheet In 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://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83f04e_f1b13a535d744ba18ace4a0c5b820940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f09a9d_60595ac03568422b9a6eac05f5bbe687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_50de56314d6148a9a7aeff2e45a672c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9987/9576/files/larufufadenuluma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7922/8833/files/css_transform_antialias_text.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d4da64_7246443571fa466a9bc297031a2dad1d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bf36f6b73d654dffb9ad9e1c2509dd58.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/98e298_b8732a3be3254b14b9adae8d64778447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0735/0696/files/91157794733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/45292738862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/23342697578.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000052d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x52D1 6480 bytes
SHA-256: d66498ebc792f58aa0ee8d5764d41e6c33d335e1c2885b6e47ef14975ef9a378
font_01_sfnt_off000062c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62C7 4908 bytes
SHA-256: c14c6cb24b2c31af7e99d2c12fe27df8a44e26e4c82e30f9e2ad233a844dd8b2
font_02_sfnt_off00007347.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7347 1800 bytes
SHA-256: daad3f347a4f42f432ee9983e619a7c063e36761dba5934b469418034847e28e
font_03_sfnt_off00007bd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BD5 10444 bytes
SHA-256: bad9546e2c989180267e12ab9e394633428b2d74def4c2c1ff1a6ef0d12de660
font_04_sfnt_off00009f88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F88 16120 bytes
SHA-256: 15a68420f1c377824b8c1fd571ac7c30556db1b4bc05006bf44ec3f6c6c83208
font_05_sfnt_off0000b46f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB46F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176