Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e266978c990f9d79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-04 08:52:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4086d66c553efa117629d2594eddbc78 SHA-1: 405672f70c54710e2b92fe64761a9f3f7fa7b58c SHA-256: e266978c990f9d79512a5a9e9d886b994ebdd6151ef12dd7b23d7e310ff6ecae
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=dled+assignment+front+page+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to an assignment download. The presence of a link farm further indicates an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content broadly. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=dled+assignment+front+page+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.superiorsearchllc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681164/netobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.robsellsatl.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380288/gafabasonafan-siradi-viwezipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hceguhsdaz.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383977/9750425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.serenitycottagelondonontariocanada.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740958/5044448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theheids.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739971/6148588.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/1/0429/1110/5191/files/all_antonyms_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5135/0166/files/loxojegojofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3653/9045/files/dexatuxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vidabuvuwegorowomilamum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6888/3098/files/69930130382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3604/9571/files/8332074049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0760/5923/files/14981798598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1631/4277/files/87599292813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6370/4729/files/array_slice_javascript.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7238/8249/files/tudas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5651/0616/files/katelitabuxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5769/2320/files/panasonic_kx-_tga931t_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9440/0414/files/mawigijivabisulipagekix.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_off00006e64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E64 5360 bytes
SHA-256: 3d2ab313bb8c790a0ec200e261479e8beee5035ba9aff8450c61895e7a86a236
font_01_sfnt_off0000808b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x808B 10180 bytes
SHA-256: 8a45b70a62fe1b9ad020262887664fb8b62ea670ac8f66362d87b39be179cb47