Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 979fd10a8ea33be1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-15 02:58:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ab5abbe6a917ac1176bade4cfbb8453e SHA-1: eb73c2ae45d40482065c3a5826f50ffe99da785c SHA-256: 979fd10a8ea33be103bc8153db6c67a27ec012fd525ce251f207a92b2df64688
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits malicious behavior through a high density of external links, identified as a PDF link farm. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=ielts%20listening%20spelling%20words%20pdf%20download', points to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, suggesting its primary purpose is to lure users to malicious infrastructure.

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.cc/wb?keyword=ielts%20listening%20spelling%20words%20pdf%20download In PDF document text
    • http://files.tanyagoldhaber.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776481/kotofuvixanun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vosugej.antsrus.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681482/3351142.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/1/0430/8670/8889/files/52154526428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lojuxefututa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7256/1050/files/xodekogutizewavebamanumuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7941/7504/files/48639782526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2393/2311/files/95337626331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7139/6257/files/teri_aankhen_video_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4537/9478/files/38482684306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0838/5439/files/cetuximab_package_insert.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4431/5029/files/nevetuzaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6799/8362/files/nisuxelifav.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006231.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6231 5236 bytes
SHA-256: 42d67b909b3a3b10f83b3ffb3f0a474bd78e789af6c25153eeb01193c94a58ef
font_01_sfnt_off00007417.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7417 9968 bytes
SHA-256: 632188f11d597aaec6ac892cb628dd12efa47aba3ba18e7a83bbe0dd24540730

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