Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab347d2a2db42e08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.8 KB Created: 2020-09-11 03:49:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 042e53515ef15608b53e6dad9ecb40f0 SHA-1: 0b3d6e3808bcc2fd505429dc7c3c9c96f2fbc1f1 SHA-256: ab347d2a2db42e0880667cb26be5f2adc142aca421d539cb34c634de3cdedfeb
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 indicating a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for a 'disclosure statement template real estate'. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.club/pify?keyword=disclosure+statement+template+real+estate, which is likely used to redirect the user to further malicious content. The presence of multiple SEO-like PDF links suggests a link farm strategy to obscure the true malicious destination.

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/pify?keyword=disclosure+statement+template+real+estate In PDF document text
    • http://files.arielcao.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070866/boloperaxuraxawov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zefes.egcssa.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454151/2631184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kojexas.theskinstudioltd.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740169/zumibegedi-bonizosupafe-nepewuxoxekoruw-bodubedovopiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jubuse.dolcewrites.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776407/7964b5855d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.johnsonmorrisfamily.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483214/dilokamikosesub.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/1/0434/2349/8396/files/android_studio_google_maps_api_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3201/7058/files/praxis_5001_study_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4211/1650/files/15012409902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5823/2473/files/39936002836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/6886/8006/files/88421141869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f390e7_79fc3a109f7846b6836f15ece82eb749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33c377_c83d390bad5e4091a3cf1e343db57877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb5a6a_41965c3a87404bc7ad080447e0a13fee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4cd51e_80438176d877454ea1d0f550513f6886.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_off00009a41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A41 5076 bytes
SHA-256: 0401997d232e769d106f3013d2b69f972e3ae9fb2993cc73846c06827ce0a6ce
font_01_sfnt_off0000ab73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB73 10084 bytes
SHA-256: f9ed8bdabe028e769e0c2ad09d135e4adfbe3fc6a0a7ab5e0d86a7803d57ab91