Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa6faa36fa18d793…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-03 23:13:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 61e49bdea5299a23664eda99c545f62c SHA-1: 39435f71c185e84b9a28ebef75346d92e0057dd9 SHA-256: fa6faa36fa18d7931f3d891b417d01327173d396ef8ae853753778649d2acdd5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=pdf+to+word+nitro+online+free'. This redirector is likely used to funnel victims to malicious sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'pdf to word nitro online free', reinforcing the lure. The presence of a link farm suggests a broad 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=pdf+to+word+nitro+online+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.standrewbythelake.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438784/tudomu-jopaxubusadukom-nafitodazaduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.salpiconontario.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740670/6866887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bagribybagri.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856877/8483809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bwitched.com.au/uploads/1/3/2/7/132711999/ropezenasapive.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/1/0437/7778/6018/files/41695896265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8277/6725/files/megebuberujamuwalikur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30347825404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0463/2992/files/2388864482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8751/8104/files/rujefosopitonosozutova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1136/7331/files/harman_kardon_soundsticks_ii.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8940/3810/files/rejerujonijosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9691/5621/files/61349238892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6309/6984/files/kokunujuzetogaj.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_off00007675.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7675 4604 bytes
SHA-256: 3038d1a839afafb19d972d0e854f6e10b18f4e446d3587c861711e3005b70fea
font_01_sfnt_off0000863f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x863F 10460 bytes
SHA-256: f20d7b7de1ae3cb5fcc6c3aa080d687d79f79edaec23bece857328b0c38737ef