Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edda0f5f334fe85c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-26 23:04:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: db7b2f10cf1229095f62e99fc4e7bb31 SHA-1: 01c1bf78109a2f7f05cc4940d53798c46840aa61 SHA-256: edda0f5f334fe85c0f7bf123187f05646a10c53304d4997e53ad337d1c19ddb3
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=grammar+in+use+ti%25E1%25BA%25BFng+vi%25E1%25BB%2587t, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content or phish users.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=grammar+in+use+ti%25E1%25BA%25BFng+vi%25E1%25BB%2587t In PDF document text
    • http://files.jakebiondi.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407152/63a3fdc40aac0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bergmanlandscaping.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384679/29ef81501bbc537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kronicsensations.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637224/d3a39.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.murrayseniorcenter.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437669/2511479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nationalroadchurchofchrist.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379894/gufewu.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/1/0435/3651/5224/files/19068989107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4904/9499/files/88411962823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5407/8871/files/63003288320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4173/4311/files/masokow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6612/0609/files/textview_background_color_android_studio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8577/4502/files/93674823286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6769/5509/files/popolok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5721/6678/files/javascript_caesar_cipher.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8097/4490/files/witatazefomabukeguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3250/1656/files/modals_exercises_advanced.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6961/2966/files/genetics_from_genes_to_genomes_6th_edition_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4398/7361/files/robert_greene_mastery.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_off00005b26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B26 5404 bytes
SHA-256: 8acece2e390e2f33e404fc13b6be5c5a699a5bcc3199fc3d4d54962ee963cd11
font_01_sfnt_off00006cec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CEC 10864 bytes
SHA-256: d9069704d95f928fcd85d53abacb475b1669a1c7768586c246449784e2795019