Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d666b2ff586fd74c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-10 21:40:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 73f44c599ed188ac776b890b85a01a28 SHA-1: 5e4a06500297d3bbc4580155389c6134eacd779d SHA-256: d666b2ff586fd74c68803d4e27e7abaa2d66b4f6d4398d078ed89fc8e99e613a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to a link farm infrastructure designed to redirect users. One critical heuristic firing indicates a direct link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same redirector URL, suggesting the primary purpose is to lure users to malicious content. 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=active+and+passive+voice+sentences+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.rebuildhopekansas.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637047/5633b8a34652d8d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ndhinc.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384301/4593927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.haulksmaple.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454620/pebivowus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lenoru.peeblesfootball.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775732/fiwozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nojijutaj.mxvisolutions.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776483/bidosefusajaveg.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/1/0431/4133/3147/files/bisezobukosixurone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7192/9496/files/absceso_hepatico_amebiano_gpc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1638/0831/files/tyler_mahle_fangraphs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2123/6386/files/12546549723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4568/2332/files/72954421421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8760/9497/files/destiny_2_forsaken_imdb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5592/1822/files/2_2_cycloaddition_reaction.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6629/2389/files/dna_replication_in_prokaryotes_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1057/1940/files/sap_bpc_10._1_training_material.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9966/1223/files/shawn_wasabi_soundcloud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9794/7300/files/node_js_logo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7568/1947/files/altura_uterina_segun_edad_gestacional.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_off00006736.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6736 5068 bytes
SHA-256: 2dd3e0b6f2e3b6d383ea91962dd4c54d1be1003e4aca1cc779de65066ef67fe5
font_01_sfnt_off0000788b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x788B 10172 bytes
SHA-256: a40bc10c3add07b821a7a3c6becbadce5dc0d3076eeb11fd49026cf12b51c8a5

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