Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdaa574130ad9e7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.0 KB Created: 2020-08-11 02:05:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 967ab27864c255e5c80e6952c903fc26 SHA-1: 599b63bd515f1620e1161f41fd89c6f0b5f3830a SHA-256: bdaa574130ad9e7dd5fa355e6092a5623a7be70523798d68891f4693ee73bde5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a mass of external PDF links, with the primary malicious URL being https://ttraff.cc/pify. The document body contains garbled text but includes the same malicious URL, suggesting the document's purpose is to lure users to this redirector. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=substitution+method+integration+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.brightlikeblack.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071019/ac9aceb33.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.biotechashok.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775484/5132416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sharpiepresents.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381006/zipojefalipimi.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/1/0448/3697/8849/files/kingdom_animalia_phylum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0441/8455/files/5959693528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5022/0185/files/arriba_6th_edition_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7547/7405/files/65775651417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/69262577592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6649/1042/files/22168435089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4736/0414/files/jadobabuseku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4166/8772/files/lulaxolemen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7016/7966/files/mopexoxoxekekowav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5641/4363/files/free_download_surat_yasin_dan_tahlil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2571/0750/files/senidadozawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0174/1463/files/deredoniwevonojodovefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4958/9668/files/integral_calculus_for_dummies.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a499.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA499 5668 bytes
SHA-256: dbe53db9ddbae03afafd736678e182e0d49e137a2ec115774748f14266f3a969
font_01_sfnt_off0000b79e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB79E 16180 bytes
SHA-256: fa06222deae10a07a9f0656a806cb7ea4efd59e8a9df81523cc7e8e60de14de4
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA00 16060 bytes
SHA-256: fe9571d28fae7a61d971a76d6a96357abdaf1bd28a19be60b9745fe6aa3ab5b8