Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbe416449a9d8449…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 14:27:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b5211fe7fc3886501b47c0607553d292 SHA-1: dcb45cde044ee782eb69877c11fd2277c2a7e534 SHA-256: bbe416449a9d8449bf4b1cc486a6681566a0cf6c71c40b15cbb3144f13fc7930
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=concept+of+sustainable+development+in+nigeria+pdf, which is designed to redirect users to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other links, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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=concept+of+sustainable+development+in+nigeria+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lifeteaa.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437775/tijixuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.americanindianbandmusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775922/49365d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.betterbodiesgympattaya.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738607/jisuvap_liraxaset_zukonik_wubevatonaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.acmec.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775432/pirakelojiwasevopore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizubexu.flfifedrum.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856257/zimoren_butod_budefop_nefan.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/1/0430/2441/6931/files/jaridi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7503/4520/files/flujo_de_energia_cadenas_troficas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/setixinojed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9816/8727/files/tirenarose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7674/7413/files/merchant_of_venice_act_3_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6245/1611/files/coffee_fermentation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1504/4245/files/plantronics_backbeat_fit_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0642/5249/files/557696254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8907/6117/files/77977552252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2327/0042/files/86267572146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7757/3535/files/zonowurimobuvedeweki.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_off00006fa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FA8 5580 bytes
SHA-256: 694f835b7f059edd3ab485da0a8b455e18a6facc3a761088058cd7d18d116aba
font_01_sfnt_off0000828e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x828E 10132 bytes
SHA-256: ecdad598f39e89599bf714203a9aa00b09f8378f3b124ac8f78ece7b1e8e76a1