Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f04306a98e0d56f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.2 KB Created: 2020-08-11 19:28:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 63f7aaf3ea0c6f081020f6a516a2d723 SHA-1: 522b1998f70641f11edb1d25ccbf160c9eafb5b9 SHA-256: f04306a98e0d56f239a1535988588b3f0fb7fdcca05f53a24496c507b5cb1440
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-Ins T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to domains associated with link farms and redirectors, such as ttraff.com. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK indicates that at least one of these links directs to known malicious infrastructure. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic further confirms the malicious intent by identifying a large collection of external PDF links, likely intended to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute malware. No scripts were extracted from this sample, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious sites strongly suggests a phishing or redirection attack.

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/wb?keyword=quadratic%20standard%20to%20vertex%20form%20worksheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.nickidenicki.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739419/1446438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zitabe.deep-learning-site.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815176/pevosafimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.merisonsporting.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813132/8632261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jaynardiscounts.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637385/1755616.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/1/0433/8787/9587/files/mekinubinabusav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9239/3640/files/body_boss_workout_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6874/2046/files/school_bonafide_certificate_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3354/2303/files/waluxogun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4243/8310/files/dipilimina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2944/5273/files/dialectic_of_enlightenment_culture_industry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2845/4298/files/zigur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8113/7316/files/all_the_bright_places_jennifer_niven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0432/1184/files/associated_press_stylebook_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0903/1840/files/3d_grapher_wolfram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1100/4821/files/xonedasovoj.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_off00004d3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D3A 5576 bytes
SHA-256: aa36aecbd13d1efb86baa1e12f0349a716852da9e819e1fda8c0868a2d56b827
font_01_sfnt_off00006023.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6023 9940 bytes
SHA-256: 76154c5399c488c34477c6f6f657518312808bfb8b8dd72057c105b39a4502de