Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbcabd2ae737e6f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.0 KB Created: 2020-08-08 00:49:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 617c8b2e6e2111addae85f29557b0778 SHA-1: 2af5f073dc7a2ecf9fea147de16016c3eafa5086 SHA-256: fbcabd2ae737e6f13990709bea015de3a51b3ae4ebe4a4fa39f17c4b8c4d5a9a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary link directs to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=biology+notes+pdf+zambia', which is identified as a malicious redirector. Another heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, suggesting an attempt to distribute or host multiple malicious PDFs. The document body contains garbled text but includes the same redirector URL, reinforcing its malicious intent.

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=biology+notes+pdf+zambia In PDF document text
    • http://files.backdoorfriendspurebredcatrescue.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380339/08ba5037fc41.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.adamsaada.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815882/8253279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.globalnatives.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438079/tifebedipimazuxefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.blackberrykeep.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712661/54edda686.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/1/0431/3815/4657/files/davej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6372/9557/files/julofesijezedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4832/1692/files/zibetiduxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5032/8486/files/alimentos_ricos_vitamina_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8122/7672/files/penoroba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7207/0556/files/xanonugemijutiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8941/5583/files/quran_word_by_word_urdu_translation_para_30.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2651/4077/files/xazora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/4325/3406/files/geometria_angulos_y_triangulos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7020/1760/files/88607557761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2702/1480/files/jilidozebosodajovebuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9212/3560/files/ap_computer_science_practice_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1538/6789/files/beachbody_21_day_fix_calendar.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007c1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C1B 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 4bc01e55af79b10055a631b627477ee1be8809645365c6eb09435c5d5b9b4b0b
font_01_sfnt_off00008e6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E6B 13012 bytes
SHA-256: 1a3915a2681f82f306a58a2993ad12c43be0c91fcc305984170bfebf7124653e
font_02_sfnt_off0000b679.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB679 16352 bytes
SHA-256: 9cb0650af5bdb2e8593988a361a40fe1030b61ea25d8fce7fab67310e0b1f9a7
font_03_sfnt_off0000cc01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC01 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34