Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b12d7d2a8855fd04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-13 21:52:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b0b697f5e779858465dda0243fe50a7d SHA-1: 782351d85dfd4e380eec2a8648be51c82080a0ea SHA-256: b12d7d2a8855fd04cd7ac185332d275b7209a44d328ea7fb036613963a27f612
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=excel+sheet+template+for+project+management`. This URL is designed to lure users by appearing to offer a useful template, but it redirects to malicious infrastructure. The document body also contains this URL and numerous other links, many of which point to domains that host PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

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=excel+sheet+template+for+project+management In PDF document text
    • http://biwagiz.conflictchange.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/mutid_zebarobefoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gefap.hpotx.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398091/pufalod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futik.reptilefactorysocal.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070450/pejepozugozinuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.yesandventure.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637881/2987716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.1stgengenealogy.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741348/5797621.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/1/0431/9100/9442/files/mario_vargas_llosa_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8062/3015/files/security_risk_assessment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0222/3013/files/marketing_assistant_cv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/2812/4572/files/11959103493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1637/2892/files/zabebuwigaxowigaxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2027/1272/files/ocps_school_calendar_2016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mejamuzeditika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8954/3836/files/kemujen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0487/0305/files/wuroma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0595/9574/files/31865609227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3667/2162/files/kukenepadobelegud.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000637b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x637B 5532 bytes
SHA-256: 7eb81da3d4a421da8cd5a12075d140318a76e977e459ad58672c6a0c8dc9fe22
font_01_sfnt_off00007633.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7633 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 2ac493fe03ab4a031bc712a430bf7cab50f1ec4233e72b486407da0f74dbaf95