Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e18880099ef88ae8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 00:50:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b3ef6656b6d5d80212b0357cd83468f9 SHA-1: f2b581ebbedb39b179de8e8ba72b39279e49f6b4 SHA-256: e18880099ef88ae8bfcf35997c528e55152b6538834316ba21873af5495487a1
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a lure related to an assignment answer, designed to trick users into clicking a link. The embedded link redirects to `https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=506+assignment+answer+in+english+pdf`, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The file also contains a large number of links to external PDFs, many hosted on `static.usrfiles.com`, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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/wix?keyword=506+assignment+answer+in+english+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://www.indictrans.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/576447_8f4c7b34c8db40d2b003dd770e15daca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ad03d_95cfc4de9f3b4649835254739d092713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_74c3717893964734b545cf26028f6726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b13fd1_a771efb8fdde433ab27cdc949193c443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5833/7694/files/away_in_a_manger_piano_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d94ae5_64d0d53afb50400fb5f4bef1042aa233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_01abae187c814641bd7c5b67a3d3278f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/409ca8_1e99ccfb5a954d51a3fd13ee250491ab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0140/3801/files/rinum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7356/8919/files/free_b_boying_tutorials.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7381/4171/files/word_jumble_puzzle_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/5578/7681/files/maraturorolavijunijofo.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
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 10

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000539a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x539A 5872 bytes
SHA-256: ca7c96ed9720d77f16828867b241c83e14f64eefcab195e7eb829c3b3f70a409
font_01_sfnt_off00006767.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6767 2656 bytes
SHA-256: ff8289fcab20b7b81f5dc7c47458689637225d7099c48932a46d6898d6123f6c
font_02_sfnt_off0000726c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x726C 4944 bytes
SHA-256: 9ecb621567b74df2ef17856ce034c88d10706283d7fa82c386f7da9f53f7e4a8
font_03_sfnt_off00008281.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8281 2328 bytes
SHA-256: 18b250f24057ce91e4a59b25c1eec79fa8b4d7e2cb9f6c0de02c7e032a072fd4
font_04_sfnt_off00008d38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D38 2604 bytes
SHA-256: 5fd53e2058c4f5d98b70161d670f1e42036942552fef68ac845a5e47e2d7f715
font_05_sfnt_off00009857.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9857 2108 bytes
SHA-256: 5fc9e2cd4e7ad04544edda2023dd698132b65daf167a61e09de9fd8de66d8b52
font_06_sfnt_off0000a22b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA22B 4336 bytes
SHA-256: 87016e8933cc862d1d188edfbee698abcff8178ed3d6b510b61737ee02f60284
font_07_sfnt_off0000afcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFCC 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 64ec43f74326abb1816745b357e78d7a5d2327b3f835e41c45825803c0fe8356
font_08_sfnt_off0000d56f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD56F 2704 bytes
SHA-256: 0050349814d8658bed5856405982d73d43414675a208a2a55cd2b58c9d6303ed
font_09_sfnt_off0000e07c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE07C 2608 bytes
SHA-256: 89aa5ef39ecd647c310fa7d43209dd0d208a608e38381102f2e40635d4f29b56