Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3b0f97252b89f43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-07-11 16:49:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4dc3ab03f59b79040633cb95831c3adb SHA-1: 29d140df06fd905c7851618dd19fb68317d37aab SHA-256: f3b0f97252b89f43d0688210d9075159978731877aa7498e1881a7cde1ec5fbe
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is used to lure users to potentially harmful content. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the target search query 'biology notes for class 11 chapter 1 pdf', indicating a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the social engineering aspect.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=biology%20notes%20for%20class%2011%20chapter%201%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.myfutra.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384018/netax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.anancientconversation.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383549/wupipegiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.support.famhealth.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437740/3357936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.windygapepc.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814001/nukonolafuro_sorodekabogedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://kibazuson.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/nelitibukuwuladizem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamikedunodu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/lelapevuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zinisarov424395058.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/boxetizogubatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raneguwuvaxa199338652.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/79289994079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://libujidi.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/rezevevovixupisuwipewun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakabejojo.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/6994888549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danutajozuk.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/32001954929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/56346524494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wupukibasabozuxijixosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8065/5775/files/kuxuwokatob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3729/4754/files/35092555467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wizivudid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gamusuzojikifikukudubug.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_off00007295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7295 5408 bytes
SHA-256: cc0a03e29efe256b5cfc077ed769f3d7bc28bf925441f9ad2d5470659c9e6530
font_01_sfnt_off000084fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84FA 9980 bytes
SHA-256: cc59f4d015e4f55fee9813c32abbee43aebec1d1a0d00b81fedf36c51e4f6c58