Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7814764b38192be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-08-12 20:42:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8e928aa813670feaeb4a7a9f385b51f3 SHA-1: 0ca1b1adc9e48839f6dc5ec6023e9a6ac05d9fe9 SHA-256: f7814764b38192beaa9bd06b0efaf49942cffd843dbffef5e3a9250e4b2d9c93
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=callan+method+pdf'. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of external links, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to various sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into clicking these links, leading to potentially harmful destinations.

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=callan+method+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.phloxdivinity.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776180/mokis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ellenalt.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302924/derusexasen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surifuri.intimatelyyoursweddings.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856333/6413345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mikevincentphotography.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383541/baruxubu_kevogun_zujamozesaxapi_vigevoluzoju.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/1/0432/6175/5555/files/rawuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1063/7475/files/11751620181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1666/7815/files/general_ability_test_year_5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/38746106010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1021/8391/files/gelugubirudejejanesaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9280/3744/files/definition_of_leadership_by_scholars.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0885/2117/files/poxumitewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0069/1862/files/adobe_acrobat_dc_convert_word_to.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8360/4903/files/43542462300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4966/2117/files/29278630164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7275/7668/files/70913434194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/0319/4007/files/rsum_au_bonheur_des_dames.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5537/2695/files/vowabesotopu.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_off000078c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78C1 4912 bytes
SHA-256: b7f22310accc36bbabed417ff2073a500d2776761e3f4429efd852730e4c67c2
font_01_sfnt_off00008956.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8956 11460 bytes
SHA-256: 52eb2d71314e89d2d5af1abd28befd3a89ba616b7cbf26714c8817012bf1c5af