Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 daf61edc6d76cfef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-07 05:51:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 58022ab9b627bf49624b574dc93f82e1 SHA-1: f260ac695e5e98e2452e07373ef5f49740bd77a8 SHA-256: daf61edc6d76cfef06185028cb6f73c05b26cd56e04017dd3381d692e9f1da16
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.cc). This indicates a link farm or redirection attack designed to obscure the final destination. The primary heuristic firing confirms that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that is also present in the heuristics, suggesting it is the intended lure.

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=agronomy+and+its+scope+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ruralschoolseducation.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775997/tupetatawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.forthesakeofhumanity.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695492/0891f60a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.yunkawasiperu.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379612/vizarifogumawov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotexij.jdwallace.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438137/keliro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rochesterkino.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164002/forixamewowipewuguwe.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/1/0432/4796/0232/files/92565154685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7181/6358/files/toxozagivelujun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1135/0439/files/gv_design_sprint.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0531/2154/files/pidijutejasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9765/1352/files/4755316908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5489/0149/files/nenarojinudifejopabavut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7176/6695/files/43986557423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6948/6757/files/vupumekumujale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3816/8472/files/35209188291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8320/2711/files/venkatrama_telugu_calendar_2020_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6302/3518/files/60803808619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3831/7464/files/78211188180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3982/4799/files/wesevisalorakivezuxabodi.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_off00007372.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7372 5536 bytes
SHA-256: e5cf77e85013a5b24148fe0cc79ba963e147b401718616b6c39134f734f098ec
font_01_sfnt_off0000863d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x863D 9992 bytes
SHA-256: 0f9427248af7119d14596e852d330fa285c11ae7ef40f01b18ddacb7e8868c7a

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