Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd35dafa686fa4bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-06 11:54:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b0cbc5986118c5521b71fcf15eb21081 SHA-1: 455a97e5ada5896eb0017b89c2e083ce3bbd50af SHA-256: bd35dafa686fa4bb6b03223c6a378ec5462c4b7269918c9dd015338edec7d564
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=charismatic+leadership+tactics+pdf'. This redirector likely leads to further malicious content or malware. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with many links pointing to external PDF files, suggesting a broad distribution or phishing campaign. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful 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=charismatic+leadership+tactics+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.jeffdirects.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874585/28af8430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.elephantpaintings4you.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454219/9051096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.petlemur.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739616/3266030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.saintclairstorage.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775853/bogofuxe.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/1/0431/5106/5243/files/nonomijorodazazob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8731/4585/files/leluxakiloruroda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9755/5108/files/xaxotasimazodufosigefaxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2825/0781/files/174829664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8153/9483/files/76586165031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7510/9018/files/antepartum_hemorrhage_acog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/90278046640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2021/4681/files/tixarufaduju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0265/0014/files/rirulosifetamebiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8157/9161/files/vupaxosedosuvogiganobuxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0476/2011/files/64998032529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5804/4828/files/40457837744.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_off00006bfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BFE 5300 bytes
SHA-256: e759c8e230cc2c1c4411de5a834e354cf0289a2aa0faa9e43d6326d0844263a0
font_01_sfnt_off00007dd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DD2 10008 bytes
SHA-256: 4d9ccf7ee78f342c149e254fcea6967ac34796f1c55edf35a5439e44431cf871

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