Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b25fec8dd1a41685…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-19 05:20:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bb3ad5d1653d8daafa0f5affe4320e1c SHA-1: e81d9e96733f3edd04adc914bff7a7a77d722628 SHA-256: b25fec8dd1a41685e4881ce8f88daf43ec99812333c63b6e716b86703795d66a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically disguised as free music content. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.cc, which is known for redirecting to further malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a SEO poisoning or link farm tactic.

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.cc/pify?keyword=music+online+free+mp4 In PDF document text
    • http://bakofok.ellisbirdfarm.ca/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/zipukesamem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.youthartscenter.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637190/7058856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gratitudeandgrace.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681392/1054832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasani.mystorycommunity.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453133/1e6e2d5066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.isimplyloveit.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970003/1d3e4858ab74.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/1/0431/2432/6564/files/introduction_to_the_catechism_of_the_catholic_church.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9978/1275/files/15039191551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2589/9426/files/movodatuwevezevudezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9714/6019/files/wikowarajedatenawotireke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3485/3021/files/balopeguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/novorubafiwani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7180/7391/files/journal_echourouk_algrie_d_aujourd_hui_algerieinfo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5942/0063/files/37437156927.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_off00006672.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6672 5044 bytes
SHA-256: 8bc2a4e9b24758804b8f49ed932dea90dd8b41757a57be3e2014bad56c031946
font_01_sfnt_off0000778f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x778F 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 8a8d0ca8f12a20fc312e2265253278837eca23a1b72c50bfa0aed6751332fd56

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