Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b437795e8e43b8d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

248.5 KB Created: 2020-08-23 11:25:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cecc85139ed7925225db69fcad0a717a SHA-1: 94f2a8b1d67885df79f0ef004efda08bdb9510a0 SHA-256: b437795e8e43b8d1849cdefaefc1f0a61d249facea5663040733842ee685065d
294 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a lure to install a browser extension or plugin, which is a common social-engineering tactic for malware delivery. It also includes a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely used to host or serve the malicious payload. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a high-risk attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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.
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=firefox+42+ftp In PDF document text
    • http://files.balancedsolegifts.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378950/sezalukubumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ps111adolphsochs.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695805/c23b0320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaxabo.whitetigermonthly.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871390/radepejabutubatak.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/1/0432/4301/2256/files/edgar_allan_poe_cuentos_macabros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3383/7224/files/gisapelak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0079/9140/files/wozegarila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9276/3039/files/bamford_stroke_classification.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7641/8720/files/noxuneda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5738/8440/files/reported_speech_examples_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1603/6257/files/75866254966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/3442/2941/files/blockchain_tutorial_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pafinekumukomotutawewokab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9491/7799/files/69808446039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7986/8309/files/clair_de_lune_sheet_music_for_guitar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6117/8521/files/can_you_speed_up_edgenuity_videos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2226/1143/files/sotewokosutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8308/8547/files/fairy_floss_machine_manual.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00038b06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x38B06 4720 bytes
SHA-256: b177b423ad58ff6e3cd3274b06d86f2dae2e9164570e7f8aafcd5f259497f5bb
font_01_sfnt_off00039b34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x39B34 15628 bytes
SHA-256: 43d3a6f1a21fade836549ac8803387f571ac28d45256ad71572c7a4d1d3363d0
font_02_sfnt_off0003cc4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3CC4B 1736 bytes
SHA-256: 74be5bc4d46f64e5c506ae1006f7022dc98ebf960e37c7bf417c2027ca73106d