Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e64489274bcfa474…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.4 KB Created: 2020-07-11 17:58:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d1fb000b53faba826e35119d3034a9a6 SHA-1: 75e6e7f1640cb8630796f8a9b1aa028056b4cbae SHA-256: e64489274bcfa4746bb50fca889a92e0c4fc35cf57eea882b7544a48f3c876af
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=bus+operator+selection+survey', which is also flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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.
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=bus+operator+selection+survey In PDF document text
    • http://files.mustardseedmarketinggroup.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683088/malero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.teeiabodesignsartexpressions.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969987/motizitesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.andressalazar505.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454098/dopawumifogebuzupov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.centralbedsswimsquad.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696580/dorale_finokuwoteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.negsbestthing.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815961/riwemuto.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/66541571973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5650/5756/files/zenawoxedunimesez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4957/3784/files/99356151314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5625/1555/files/ronidutakugoruxoxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1214/5823/files/5227895863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puvudoxewe.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/biriwojatuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kijukadolok.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/bixefezezerosewat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latonebe.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/19698912175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9443/4202/files/sadabok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7259/4844/files/leboduvijol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/negonarufefozosaburesid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1754/3588/files/jobijaledatuximisufiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6856/4380/files/dudawudolenaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6033/9623/files/34564446030.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007b85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B85 5020 bytes
SHA-256: c034bcdab3a5623cb075f9a18cfa4f5e8cadd00a8e450ec5c4f8b2dbafc3d60b
font_01_sfnt_off00008cb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CB3 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 9488f97e1519426660c898160a8f543f4cd2d468fb6501996a8a5091d0d151bd
font_02_sfnt_off0000b2d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2D3 16224 bytes
SHA-256: 9086cf1acfa17d58f547745da934e63782811fb77e1a163d0f11787986d144bb