Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f900596293739e01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-08-08 10:59:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7df0347f6698f37108df2c0d70e96380 SHA-1: 67b43c263b6b549339aaa265262ffc00bceaf265 SHA-256: f900596293739e01cc908a29d66bf5d56c34ac66d408d3f0cef3f4af02a6530c
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a download button, which is a common lure for phishing or malware delivery. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=jolly+phonics+actions+flashcards+pdf', indicating a likely attempt to redirect the user to malicious content. The presence of numerous other PDF links further suggests a link farm or redirection strategy.

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/pify?keyword=jolly+phonics+actions+flashcards+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.handmadebylouisa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775827/25f7f89e987e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mishablaise.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871984/a52334dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.whereintheworldisjenniferlynn.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407051/fusezefulenoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonoti.sooversociety.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740892/52eff9cddd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.metalbosco.com.ec/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398019/wowumanawesa-julejovadalib-wozak.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/1/0430/6976/7842/files/77830791384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4021/9037/files/94697270413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7920/5013/files/litavepadowir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0375/4142/files/paul_g_hewitt_conceptual_physics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6037/9286/files/38640744518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4031/8375/files/76377983437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1452/6888/files/resume_format_for_experienced_accountant.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0336/2973/files/bupozoxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tulajemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0682/7428/files/campbell_ap_biology_9th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4545/3985/files/61665034262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1319/2349/files/bowidijoriribix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1903/2984/files/gonekuzoximolaja.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_off00004dee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4DEE 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 49faaeba62b32da2f4beff6f8874d898ef596e3b062b0b781c22c3b6e50334b8
font_01_sfnt_off00006013.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6013 9916 bytes
SHA-256: dd96eac41c2d779268703cd81a7455f0d2a8e4e1291d450ca43d8623cc64933e