Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 977872b671d578e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-12 11:16:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d19c604b62227966a5d5593216406169 SHA-1: ed7d26280b9e211db1b64c4f65079bc672488923 SHA-256: 977872b671d578e9cec5d38dfa570556a9192cfa9bae82e115bd731ece071d2a
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that appears to be part of an SEO link farm designed to distribute malicious PDFs. The "DOC BODY" content and heuristic firings indicate a lure related to a "28 day boiled egg diet pdf", suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external links points towards a downloader or redirector pattern.

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=28+day+boiled+egg+diet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.kmbyrne.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969993/tuburotikapez_sagepibames_lofixexizin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.citizensforenvironmentalstewardship.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739415/dedunigoxajim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thesanctiflychick.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739831/2782723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.deewhyhealth.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637108/titomo_kitewuduf_devipepi_kefekofitake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitotipow.rattlerbands.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681218/6155ee6ba144a91.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/1/0429/0553/4620/files/basic_english_grammar_tamil_translation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8567/6192/files/13311806489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4074/3329/files/jiduvoxemokitemuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0245/4428/files/10831157493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9027/1638/files/1432328739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/1517/1236/files/88192033693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0333/6088/files/ligapavumuwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7763/2154/files/27609932427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7260/1756/files/razadukodowiveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/6181/0076/files/hedonismo_psicologico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2687/files/download_to_excel_converter_free_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0470/7491/files/tasofiwijudaporug.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_off00006cff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CFF 5408 bytes
SHA-256: 3b239270556994fd20f0a63e0d65bb56e429ce7cde66e800e1b7533df45e1f2b
font_01_sfnt_off00007f72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F72 10212 bytes
SHA-256: c5e9687dfec86481b37c0767d1d54cbb321d60bd8d0be64e7a037ed750b5e89d