Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2f079653586eba5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-09-22 05:40:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 973e84e87087951fcdebfdfe0fa8fe67 SHA-1: 1434c612ddad37393deac9792c47165c2d1ed01b SHA-256: a2f079653586eba523c368c5c68254fe26646447f18c6744c073d994060e34aa
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=consecutive+integer+word+problems+worksheet+pdf'. The document body also contains this URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of numerous other links to Shopify PDFs indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO for malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and the malicious redirector strongly suggest 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.club/wix?keyword=consecutive+integer+word+problems+worksheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lwvlcf.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453645/fenivozemelux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rawuris.rentalcottageontario.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070387/begesejixebuzaleroku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guxaxeb.maestrodonappert.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303354/kajakozokezan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zutabiv.treetopflowers.co.nz/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070450/mefewogufib_labadutasuzav_lefijeripaz.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/1/0437/4082/3706/files/16407101106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1457/6538/files/zobuwunukuzakuxumevamito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9349/0838/files/anacortes_high_school_transcripts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2086/files/elf_bowling_1_game_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0775/2866/files/17665636775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6682/6656/files/52545744645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1266/1146/files/18222484902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8482/3205/files/zuwulejidakavitoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5743/1196/files/power_outage_report_dallas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://95663e5c-f7e9-41b3-ba7c-68c98114355f.filesusr.com/ugd/436160_6b318c9dae444e2a9a22e88bc502ddfc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://23bbf5a5-e507-4d00-ae78-1b66baeaef37.filesusr.com/ugd/217b8a_e66aff3f973443c2a4355d415d771d6a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7b9a5171-e347-45f1-b75b-75c2dfabfa5d.filesusr.com/ugd/f1780b_8c2373a1ba7d49f8b12647b09cc5c654.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off000059d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59D1 5620 bytes
SHA-256: 4646b61a5f8cb6c0d656bfda1d0590740f5029623106499592451de023da288a
font_01_sfnt_off00006cd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CD9 9876 bytes
SHA-256: 20a6e8377105c5af958008c53ac90c8d06e684d7d3763bc20bd505e0408178b6
font_02_sfnt_off00008ee8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8EE8 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 2d958bd008b8db5b33092f112e99c856adbcc0a100e950d14ff814b784be6357