Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bb36da835ad3e1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2020-08-14 21:30:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: adf1994be9dcfabf33ff154d94c52195 SHA-1: 6ec103ec8d81a74a9792e3d5dbd3fbc4ef5c85cc SHA-256: 9bb36da835ad3e1fc69454f4b04978ecffbb33c67857bafa7531921d7d9e6522
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=modern+resume+template+free+indesign'. This URL is presented in the context of a resume template lure. The PDF also contains a link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content widely. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious redirectors and the document's deceptive content strongly indicate a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

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=modern+resume+template+free+indesign In PDF document text
    • http://files.bajarallyschool.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969377/fazizu.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/1/0430/3850/7169/files/30966623217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0314/0506/files/casablanca_tourist_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5777/3718/files/9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3712/0933/files/19959271132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9779/2415/files/65211275723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4473/2065/files/savibedamopujomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0279/0039/files/pafexelawibidaron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8494/7357/files/nevugetifafuwawidugowedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6809/4629/files/sowezadosadibewomij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4979/4213/files/calculations_in_quantum_chemistry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mokotutirajozejimus.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006de9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DE9 5364 bytes
SHA-256: 3be3e84c4dbeb2133782cc5baf0e882e56dc81e357edb1b265c7abd0f3d38af8
font_01_sfnt_off0000801a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x801A 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 9b3afe852385ea048fbaa1a9d45ed40e6e61bdff32cd5a43b8829a4da5c2b465
font_02_sfnt_off0000a39b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA39B 16324 bytes
SHA-256: 7267daefadc78e36a59a8256c9de3cb1d55b7e78bfd16df4589f701e931930c0

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