Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88ca3d30fff2547b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.3 KB Created: 2020-08-13 20:08:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 02f24dc58761b5f950f349ee866d21e2 SHA-1: 39cdc8085d5bdee877a4a866c8cfeb35c15d87a5 SHA-256: 88ca3d30fff2547be0988f732f93f2c7f347d3c4fedd607467d7cc0c8dd02607
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirection and a link farm, pointing to a phishing attempt disguised as a document download. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=human%20gene%20therapy%20pdf' is identified as a malicious redirector, likely leading to a phishing page. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=human%20gene%20therapy%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.faithkingwriter.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856186/7603818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.raveim.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738850/1445e966cdf1c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jackienorman.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131860787/xewaguxevaxo_xarak.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/1/0433/4256/1433/files/54333155374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tedogunugovosilogupex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3196/2535/files/avast_license_key_2038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8110/4541/files/sosunutulokutowilosokubev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5161/3334/files/learning_german_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6100/9829/files/14257737525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1307/8168/files/3_point_hitch_backhoe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9281/1669/files/modavelex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/40429789840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9391/6837/files/pan_african_university_scholarship_2020_19_results.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1368/4891/files/damusinudorabok.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00016cce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16CCE 5032 bytes
SHA-256: cceb34a3e31694345f2f21fd889d7994699466282ebd439ba96e326e4beb17d4
font_01_sfnt_off00017db5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17DB5 13316 bytes
SHA-256: b2d04c42d5ec385849b1dacb3c0992c66c8b131b8719a82e588196b53b70e4f5
font_02_sfnt_off0001a90b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A90B 16092 bytes
SHA-256: ee796b0d072c3da784915329e3d40b60a5f3ef2e5e1937d62fc4d7a384cee729
font_03_sfnt_off0001bdba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BDBA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f