Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb69499e96d7d609…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.6 KB Created: 2020-08-03 18:03:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 06c5d5da28aacbbf6183559f2ceb9ada SHA-1: 42869fe21deb664bac157fee7fcf0441e4b4baee SHA-256: fb69499e96d7d609328346541eac7ed0493b126654edb9d3c2a13b0c5001bc26
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic firing indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=recent+advances+in+plant+biotechnology+pdf'. This suggests the document is designed to lure users into clicking malicious links, potentially leading to further compromise. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=recent+advances+in+plant+biotechnology+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.karlabeck.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740087/8041626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.danversfreshmarketplace.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453062/lufixunisosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.calgaryburnsclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452838/pemakirodixaluxunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.creativeprintables.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969494/7712378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.medimeals.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398544/1359960.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/1/0431/6404/1373/files/89265472563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4229/0336/files/pupolor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6633/6167/files/pumulidimonazesadatine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1898/5372/files/6447078628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5059/8562/files/48018675132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6785/0390/files/3007661143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5698/8317/files/69434879329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0713/8201/files/psychological_thriller_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3341/9166/files/git_clean_cache.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4996/5985/files/52758176304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1415/1589/files/63775582475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1537/2949/files/discord_embed_message_bullet_point.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

Related samples 8

Ranked by shared artifacts, heuristics, extracted URLs, CVEs, and signatures.

Full JSON: related samples API

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000076e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76E6 5632 bytes
SHA-256: b9f89fef9c8de6b188df5ed52acab8a341cb6e51d2d3f341080e3045db8ce760
font_01_sfnt_off00008a25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A25 10180 bytes
SHA-256: 78b4c173abf4cdc2928dfcc57ba3de6f4eff2d58e2f915182ae6c92e6eb07770

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.