Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee76f2ce952285ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-11 22:26:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3ceb48406b56d981950afb0924ef80cb SHA-1: 5fb55e6295fc59af684483892e53c2d3cde41848 SHA-256: ee76f2ce952285abccf054f2a24902a97c92b82337e3fbcc0803e724cb7edf9e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=bsc+nursing+4th+year+syllabus+pdf+ruhs'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a syllabus, indicating a phishing or social engineering lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector is the malicious redirector.

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.com/pify?keyword=bsc+nursing+4th+year+syllabus+pdf+ruhs In PDF document text
    • http://files.zohabharwani.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070362/bacbd0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xalusoruk.dominiquejo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454065/maparudaxi-vozapu-mudogamorufamof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sajuko.friendlylightcaralucia.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606227/1592394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasojo.balasmontessorischool.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636725/6550369.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/tovetutokukike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2961/1171/files/57569166593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dubisetebezurazoxodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0191/3244/files/jasowutika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2658/6520/files/adverbs_of_degree.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2159/6834/files/random_ship_name_generator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2038/1342/files/functional_skills_maths_level_1_past_papers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5936/3478/files/don_t_forget_the_lyrics_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5451/1766/files/titoxamob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1566/5826/files/how_to_use_getline_in_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7053/5318/files/if_else_r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2224/5273/files/banking_awareness_september_2020.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_off00006a19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A19 5796 bytes
SHA-256: 1f8acf9724048661b567f7192ade4eab8f5f2372fe632bfc69f52c5266efc484
font_01_sfnt_off00007dd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DD6 9996 bytes
SHA-256: 49d6a14184fb3b94a50382c43476ede6949d1406f768914d36ac35476e8f49b9