Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddaf18635b1c778a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 15:44:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7a55e80a2a51065ee3a2d43625f8e606 SHA-1: c3b431d2a009a7e90f44b67453f4347aea0614f1 SHA-256: ddaf18635b1c778a864844eaba019cba67504f42168b3f2befe59762bd6d30be
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 external PDFs, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to obscure malicious redirects. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is used to lure users with the promise of 'behavioural sciences mcqs with answers pdf'. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector and the link farm strongly suggests a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

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=behavioural+sciences+mcqs+with+answers+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://moxoworal.penngradconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378776/nururakopuvavifobaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thedanceforumsouth.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303009/jugemotusoju-rofasebipudav-pikumit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ps173q.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437984/nizuxofifezux.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/1/0431/5430/9280/files/murop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1405/4300/files/33115765960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3477/1610/files/xubekudebit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5662/5829/files/38359924449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4528/2214/files/bemesezusexon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7589/4437/files/asia_physical_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8154/7417/files/85280862858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2181/1364/files/14829657165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6009/9222/files/economic_boom_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0857/3085/files/capability_maturity_model_journal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5066/3062/files/zefirelavebesonumipubige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5216/2462/files/sefug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8380/0474/files/bellman_ford_algorithm_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2502/2621/files/mepap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8907/6117/files/68271138881.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_off0000c536.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC536 5720 bytes
SHA-256: d11a14f20314b61fbfa39288dd0fc8f3451987dfa33c6a4d1ee7513d0a73f27d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d897.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD897 12312 bytes
SHA-256: 37dc5b459c60049f075cf465ef2ea9b76952b10c170b746091344c0f22f5e290