Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0f1e874a3fc68ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.7 KB Created: 2020-08-21 18:20:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 76dac363c7f3f822c10d5b3a21d57b20 SHA-1: 0a6761007047d479ec498358cae336c5a882f4f5 SHA-256: f0f1e874a3fc68addd1426202eb52a968fc5ab1e4c2cf3e8fca7aa7216db0ab7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, including a suspicious redirector at ttraff.com. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates that this redirector is known to be malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=additional+mathematics+revision+notes+pdf', suggesting a lure to disguise malicious activity as educational content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=additional+mathematics+revision+notes+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.stewartislandnews.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969680/buzebeduji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.meyerpaintingcompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437123/vipoxabuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://befusuf.moriahlamb.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712354/197a07.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.takingbackmusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437766/vipakutakimadenawobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nogotigop.janson-hareware.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636947/6339702.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/1/0432/3383/7224/files/beneteau_first_36._7_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0652/4583/files/44568614523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6422/2101/files/puxowefexun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6769/3474/files/muvuwafamefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4493/7623/files/ambarsariya_2016_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8312/7201/files/nptel_genetic_engineering_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/8486/7736/files/android_application_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5167/7856/files/fazatakedazegutanaxerakut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7141/3155/files/office_administrative_assistant_resume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2398/5828/files/37217700060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6600/7445/files/handwriting_worksheets_for_kindergarten_printable.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8901/1612/files/navabolulib.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_off00004a30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A30 5444 bytes
SHA-256: 9c73d063a79d276b74c5afd197cc2ce7e1d02d008d5a90d5750e29e77fb83dba
font_01_sfnt_off00005c89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C89 9660 bytes
SHA-256: 5a872e72bf65d38f5381b0805464227f98914b5d34e72e27152539f5ca4ef8a1