Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88be5ffa2a118614…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 01:20:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3db6432ff025a61066f0f4b45de9238e SHA-1: 628dbf6dfb111f58b4c5abd916f16715dcb88a6a SHA-256: 88be5ffa2a118614943dbf1a676dbd42044ab73a932da61301ee63e43e1e0b78
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including links to known malicious redirectors and a link farm designed to appear as legitimate content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure for "basic algebra practice pdf" and includes the malicious redirector URL. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=basic+algebra+practice+pdf, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=basic+algebra+practice+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.stellabread.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739603/752ba8be6bc69.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.secondgradesweetiepies.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381799/gapafa_rofekofozagajus_duxizemadasi_likiwebibomovep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ataraxiaphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455883/jazozixure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nudadobu.cannonvalleycivilwarroundtable.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438216/3011171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ljubaavvakumova.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776875/movozabamefadi.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/1/0428/7099/7151/files/85679766979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6855/5415/files/3367783399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7420/8415/files/29298305593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7122/5494/files/41223719295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4423/9510/files/tnpsc_monthly_current_affairs_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6152/6166/files/menarolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9779/2415/files/16110651926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0392/5912/files/logisotewufomumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9474/6023/files/vidibozafodila.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005c05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C05 5512 bytes
SHA-256: afb442cfe4665b8cbd531df17f105c504ea12041e73a5d1a9fb809061bb7de07
font_01_sfnt_off00006ecc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ECC 13400 bytes
SHA-256: 1e0812f9f921000dbcf82d433e08455d7159a889d2855ca1c59e510cfaad0b9c