Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6fb531f6f8bdc7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.7 KB Created: 2020-07-31 23:16:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 04e73a567b6748c8a314d4e7c4230711 SHA-1: d4be0277cffa71c3b1fae29d32433accd48f886d SHA-256: d6fb531f6f8bdc7dbb3a43b6915a92e3dbe313fbf0b3ea210b3bb340ed247bd5
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 redirector link to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'pmbok 2016 pdf', suggesting a lure to disguise malicious intent. The presence of a link farm and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support the malicious classification. The primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via these links.

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=pmbok+2016+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.exact-timing.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696029/728673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rachelwoodwardhansen.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775387/69673e63.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.beitnachum.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483253/ximegigojepirez_rabisosip_suwupisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ruthnadiamassage.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740590/1737054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.roykillen.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131860204/71269d79130648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5886/4028/files/41380618258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3119/7856/files/puwafuxebimexateza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4021/1105/files/31340845371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1301/2630/files/atherosclerosis_book_pdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5286/7494/files/vasafizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6875/2023/files/nolipaverosorugalafede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/ganisififado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5476/8021/files/wanibovaraponudesubogux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6310/6968/files/42704223080.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off0000a077.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xA077 17420 bytes
SHA-256: 471349a0b46ba3c8394f8364f4295e3b187ba9e406f6023b668fbca0a06fff36
font_00_sfnt_off00006a7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A7E 4792 bytes
SHA-256: ffc00924815d5c2508b6622cc59ea34e7f6edc051d40674f593df2e6ae43cfbc
font_01_sfnt_off00007ac3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AC3 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 65cc0d7ae25baa6b451e9815f16b3c4a886d8eea41db77624eef0eb3857d6750
font_03_sfnt_off0000ba6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA6B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f