Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9840c0c794480e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-21 20:58:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b5ca50e9cba8eb3bfc8f7cc586c331d1 SHA-1: 822c53f36a8173415c31d87ee706cd770d7be887 SHA-256: b9840c0c794480e5362a380109c479f7b092cc1b24f35a15003a6df774fa07df
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, including one to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though corrupted, appears to be related to HTML to PDF conversion, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a link farm further supports a malicious classification.

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=html+to+pdf+in+php+tutorial In PDF document text
    • http://files.billscottguitar.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406629/mivuvimenisikava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stmaryselmbridge.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303102/e262a671a03cdd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foremosi.searchlightorganization.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/dimodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faroziri.eventfinishers.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813612/3217356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.monarchbooks.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814227/e394125b6e7b178.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/1/0431/0115/9575/files/rewoxaxabefugepizodimedit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9058/2427/files/teaching_writing_for_young_learners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7110/3395/files/international_banking_services.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7596/6878/files/6529281148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3595/0236/files/nezofajavagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0825/1288/files/lodinevesotifexokarapote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9321/2827/files/57242443620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8850/1143/files/62671346312.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_off0000602a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x602A 5064 bytes
SHA-256: d09d4f9cf5addff07126d66830daf81718ef37fc82105d97532dd0fc5b823258
font_01_sfnt_off00007133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7133 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 776841c8398b00449cf39675bd7d54297f3fa5d07b24525093ca7664b3101c8d

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