Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 898ff302fd7bd738…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.8 KB Created: 2020-08-06 21:08:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c032a3027e70c84365cb2416a422ca30 SHA-1: e6c61804d5cb2f6a0e7d86d5c656ca01dcd1e89d SHA-256: 898ff302fd7bd738919936c6bd376338d2d2f554a96ecf9701d81e5fdf13aacf
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The embedded URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=socialdemokraterna+partiprogram+pdf is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing its role in a lure. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious.

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=socialdemokraterna+partiprogram+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.vjrelectricalcontractor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454345/8035923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lidires.v6-classic-modifieds.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384281/5266275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xopejo.maapparel.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637649/4958210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.authorshirts.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378852/gasumepotuju.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/1/0428/9137/8854/files/70903890381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1228/2789/files/64390995073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8834/6262/files/25331565575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8863/files/bjt_transistor_basics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5920/6561/files/voxupotodigibof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1080/8216/files/72677594713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4704/2715/files/purugefawebizus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8774/9525/files/84704534285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1390/6333/files/ferew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1926/3397/files/nigodutojibagig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3854/6840/files/zilexuvujujimixabofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5522/6778/files/jesisejaporakosisisozegon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5525/9546/files/streamline_english_4.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
🗂 Part of campaign: authorshirts.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00016911.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16911 5464 bytes
SHA-256: 2de822fa60bba57e0fa2626915112e3013c338e6c87fd69595a8646051daaeb3
font_01_sfnt_off00017b98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17B98 10108 bytes
SHA-256: afa3e80f8164ad3d5c2ccef9579728688c5ccd465e1259466f0cc900774dc62d