Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1da579f7dd4ed95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.3 KB Created: 2020-07-12 12:25:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5ffa4a5fbb43ae0edeb9f75dfa33bd6e SHA-1: 4654f7f7f48964ddd83e373e325b6597b4f59f16 SHA-256: f1da579f7dd4ed957bdddaf4e91957ae49e36b5c593fdd5394fcb3092091e6c6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a malicious redirector link disguised as an 'answer key' for 'Maneuvering the middle llc 2013'. This link, ttraff.com, is flagged as malicious. The document also functions as a link farm, embedding numerous other PDF links, likely to obscure the malicious intent and potentially for SEO manipulation. 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=maneuvering+the+middle+llc+2013+answer+key In PDF document text
    • http://files.reputationthompson.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406560/kopug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mysticgamermike.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871419/7009873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kvag.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776346/3184610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.teamthomason.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384606/zepejeguzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kengallucciocup.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407086/8074984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.yorkregionaccidentlawyers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437423/pexoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ballesteroselmer3d.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681294/midasabetokiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.holacommunityarts.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738572/detuxapatimojimujagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://zudarimun.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/sidonev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasagulov.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/limizubunopefuboni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rejexurubik.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/pizokezisopovodokifel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6552/3870/files/punurebovasaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/radeziwiwilajumigetadad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2186/8960/files/71910292928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/24413790208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/budexojimomamuzarumedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2804/6233/files/39778706374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2312/3100/files/nijekuwulusok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1991/0811/files/vakazevovolipinarukudiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3731/0632/files/bodabibusivi.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_off00007ec6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EC6 5936 bytes
SHA-256: 1035d46c3d3b32d1878e7fb755f10b52118cc2d54bd3885630c3f3a9ede92be9
font_01_sfnt_off000092ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92EE 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 3ad312d526e3a6b8f275ede81b960cc9659071ed259ab8cd06e74631057735fe