Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f392ad35738faed2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB Created: 2020-08-08 02:12:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 43134627827f5b81d877fd3029d452a0 SHA-1: 625d9634c6a39cb06f98c37c648d651ac6a3f1da SHA-256: f392ad35738faed2a32d4b527d3a788d26426fb86370236afaacbc2a94c05745
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a common tactic for SEO poisoning and redirecting users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is further disguised as 'sql query interview questions for experienced professionals pdf'. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to lure users into clicking malicious links, likely leading to further compromise. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

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.cc/pify?keyword=sql+query+interview+questions+for+experienced+professionals+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sandiegocsi.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482887/7261040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.extrordinarycounseling.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379948/09a2b9e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dsaarchitects.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739993/53356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.georgia-sabatier.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164479/pujizivomifixav_tamumevavox.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/1/0432/0247/8237/files/jofatokaxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9937/3214/files/concept_of_biosecurity.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8378/3575/files/selovozatixuligujomunuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0653/3527/files/muworasobasajotolegogak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9374/5046/files/30550617366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5789/7882/files/43772574127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/fapodepemiretewuroraga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5161/3334/files/sulogenijudalififekujonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9689/1807/files/56099276366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/6128/4757/files/auditing_and_assurance_services_8th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0073/3596/files/33607409364.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000071ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71AB 5700 bytes
SHA-256: 5b719c03defc3ba0279b36a79f71c140e042df1cf3759d20bcfd8f0dff11542e
font_01_sfnt_off00008545.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8545 12812 bytes
SHA-256: d80c83508cb1b39b37b5e6877042360871a172391587addc7be4d71e474c3327

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