Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3eda70cbea95e72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.6 KB Created: 2020-08-18 21:00:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fe4c0662e4ddfe1b2c6dc591fc8c66f4 SHA-1: d7288d9a6bea7d722823bbc9ba5e74c0fecf0124 SHA-256: a3eda70cbea95e7274fcd56c55b7a91e4c53f22da2196ce57a06b5ee023dc982
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm and a specific redirector link, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The primary malicious link identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=dsssb+answer+key+86%252F+17, which is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Dsssb answer key', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=dsssb+answer+key+86%252F+17 In PDF document text
    • http://files.wonderpin.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379923/a4d87b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.smokeheadguitars.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871593/8108800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sdreece.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438541/lusorekamomuxejafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0167/5939/files/98940455185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0688/5031/files/sewebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1956/6231/files/jodiwikevozijigogijole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2599/6698/files/89198808679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4016/2467/files/tafomolexutatepobora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/8360/0806/files/13938610215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8611/7032/files/vasika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6702/2239/files/65633693229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1272/6677/files/10171607092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2007/4663/files/laxapoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4356/0351/files/87892351999.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://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000063af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63AF 5560 bytes
SHA-256: 0127105929e6b4d08d71e970fb2e4ae7b0ee08fff78b6f841ab3362f287d6dc3
font_01_sfnt_off000076da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76DA 3720 bytes
SHA-256: d0c9e33916e9e64e42e31bcf0d345f6c2fcd41735b1a34df0119bd0eb1094281
font_02_sfnt_off0000823e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x823E 15136 bytes
SHA-256: efbd10d41f1d8af821c76f51c9830986b35d93b1a235f742ef61222f8c32d599
font_03_sfnt_off0000b166.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB166 7748 bytes
SHA-256: 15996df1388d6d7ea2b82f032c35e2e6bd03e26d47a400600d51ab80e641a065