Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb4010e3ba3b02ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 01:59:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 891612ea559d810d7e82e97b51269400 SHA-1: db1ba1d2cd3735896610aa9e58f5907b75059d63 SHA-256: cb4010e3ba3b02eecc729d0cf1d89da80a54551c2fecf3e90ad65528f96c65b1
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=class+11th+chemistry+practical+book+pdf, is identified as a redirector. Additionally, a large number of links to Shopify domains were found, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning or distribution. The document body contains garbled text but includes the malicious URL and a call-to-action phrase, reinforcing the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=class+11th+chemistry+practical+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.creativationevents.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680986/waxadevepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mycommentsandthoughts.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378774/ritibekajagaposo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.core-nmsu.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814288/jabitijatufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.voltsportswear.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969740/6481647.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/1/0432/3937/5012/files/laxoxosofodupusezal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7449/4369/files/96925898372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1437/4047/files/panetixiwepapofenajujolov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7988/4186/files/80816601605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5652/9565/files/nexomisugubadeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1055/5034/files/tuvotenamaruzifosanuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4026/8711/files/63359740577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8987/9445/files/33833550958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2514/5760/files/economic_effects_of_air_pollution.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0614/8255/files/sazujabivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0337/7824/files/classes_of_organic_compounds_and_functional_groups.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nisexabidubukov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9928/1821/files/used_car_checklist_uk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1663/4011/files/88788513906.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_off00006381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6381 5656 bytes
SHA-256: d0d9c39f3eb8f860756640bf4b7519351e2c000364dbb721266170e7ccb28f3d
font_01_sfnt_off00007695.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7695 10060 bytes
SHA-256: 0cd10df680e8b30641114db27e2f2c651237e3bce5f09982ca5821318dc2198a