Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f58cb6387ca74f51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-08-08 12:47:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a7937389e0f2c0b8bac8f8477ed93463 SHA-1: b1c3adb3de8e613c4bdbb25b395196c7a416b19c SHA-256: f58cb6387ca74f51a09f0ce57742c47b98f7efc3832675a422f1b33684d93e25
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, disguised as IELTS writing exam samples. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various documents, likely to improve search engine ranking and distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector and the link farm structure strongly suggests a phishing or scam campaign.

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=ielts+writing+exam+samples+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.rcyahoos.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775018/8834575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mischiefprojections.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857565/lalil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.joanflemingpoet.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453253/9972586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6896/2469/files/tukirozikusufibutuxibokos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6635/9962/files/54959176463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6486/0580/files/escape_from_tarkov_beginner_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7152/7325/files/ffxiv_goldsmith_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2330/9727/files/40860339797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2018/0894/files/fefitajolubibukulema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9050/9973/files/cambridge_igcse_physics_coursebook_david_sang_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7274/8710/files/falexof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8026/9477/files/17303143295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6617/1285/files/sazejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4828/7912/files/bigupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1956/6231/files/46199785559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9730/6776/files/xobepakibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0921/0529/files/pokemon_strategy_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9212/4572/files/gixijuzakagaxizozevimi.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006c6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C6C 5136 bytes
SHA-256: 91f6d58456be572d67181b87c6ec85794adae5e39829dbc4fdcf39a25748593e
font_01_sfnt_off00007dd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DD3 10108 bytes
SHA-256: 334417e1ff18d14a8600e20f8029bbee54c65299691fc449a928af9225a33bee
font_02_sfnt_off0000a054.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA054 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3