Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbf666a472784fc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-09-17 07:49:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4740253ac410e1044408849dca7c8305 SHA-1: 29434936ea963ff862befeb5abc1520d7cf5d730 SHA-256: fbf666a472784fc2e22821e731ffaf3651d60b5b58b72701ef334bfbafb90e8d
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary URL, 'https://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=liespotting+pamela+meyer+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other links, suggesting a lure to external content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.link/wix?keyword=liespotting+pamela+meyer+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.all4pawsdogrescue.com.au/uploads/1/3/2/8/132813998/denub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.steppenwolfphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453725/9121683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaxadeluz.katherinegoldman.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776760/zevugafidon_kevej_dozenoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woguvofuv.klesua.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739860/59d876f300470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaxosoga.myardysslife.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410685/bukev.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/1/0431/7285/5957/files/61581924462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5580/0739/files/39441383964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3199/4280/files/shakespeare_in_love_full_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2cdc781a-6b6e-4d81-94d2-79478a622b97.filesusr.com/ugd/d216cb_b0dd2231576c4e1391cf9f56fe46a501.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b0f52371-4b1e-4e13-bd40-4321e36f264c.filesusr.com/ugd/c1108c_11f469d531fe40739cffae7032dd8a25.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off000061db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61DB 5404 bytes
SHA-256: 341bd397a44f988fb9b552bba384f131597aa7650520570ad8dfdf7ed0a3a479
font_01_sfnt_off00007435.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7435 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 555d7313afa069ba4d3c7485d9499ce0737cd665b1ec9a7d0c653e3c0235351d