Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 966dfb2296171605…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.0 KB Created: 2020-08-14 04:01:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: aac01a0b63b810a0e4aab7a9a3105555 SHA-1: b106b3da95964b0aa239d3d207995773505275d1 SHA-256: 966dfb2296171605805220615a6128236b6384220c7479e204e00c9b7aaa1b94
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Penelope douglas books pdf' and the URLs themselves, suggesting a lure to entice users to click on malicious links. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on shopify.com, further indicates a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute 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=penelope%20douglas%20books%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.theventure.blog/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606923/2826909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.marksthespottx.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776164/b86dda49e7f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.louisianascreenwriter.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452878/jegiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xikov.jerryday.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482995/6743778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milimoma.banjobuyingguide.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681670/nexedakis.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/1/0438/3634/2434/files/21157829799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8215/3112/files/valowebilimuvoxarujitap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0730/2037/files/samumugudesiligopozakudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7824/5781/files/zogevikamupepojano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2795/4853/files/before_sunset_screenplay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0485/3402/files/risc_cisc_architecture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7573/7502/files/turnigy_9x_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0661/3912/files/2006_mitsubishi_galant_owners_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6566/1853/files/monster_manual_iv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8806/8254/files/14414521865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6856/3355/files/10677288979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4288/8097/files/ibps_exam_books_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3320/6690/files/while_statement_java.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3863/7208/files/50555107734.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000671f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x671F 5316 bytes
SHA-256: c4bfcc3b2278950be01fe9aa68b3ce0e08abefe08912066d36f6c911edf65ce8
font_01_sfnt_off00007944.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7944 10120 bytes
SHA-256: 6db7ea6cb7f2d17ec5ee5fee5fa66cdd4af755a9354ab12041d6474f776a7181
font_02_sfnt_off00009c20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C20 16612 bytes
SHA-256: e01b01a3b531b4abb8c7ff911d5e5e6e34f307a58d20f32b8fe264e686b8f7f4