Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff13c132026b6c74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.7 KB Created: 2020-09-10 18:27:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6bca45de5e5558c33c034e87924935c0 SHA-1: d1a89e2fb9ac87c5adbd28bfa583ce11be4b6afa SHA-256: ff13c132026b6c7474f8cd94ad61ab6150093e8f1e2ab24ab69e36f54a35321c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning. One critical heuristic identified a direct link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=litterature+africaine+negritude+pdf', which is also flagged as malicious. This indicates a social engineering attempt to trick users into clicking a link that leads to malicious infrastructure.

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.link/wix?keyword=litterature+africaine+negritude+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lyndhurstarttrail.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739265/07c0e3b3e3ec10c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.twelvelittletales.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455956/tulun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugelod.biking4life.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/dusawozapanax.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/1/0429/3961/3347/files/lodgement_ref_answer_5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1026/7035/files/28613219500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7299/4979/files/19971916832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6901/3158/files/bernie_s_green_new_deal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bca722_4949b87793bd454592b3539be9cae8c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a107db_f2e4c5c079eb440fae093a36ab7a11f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/affb4a_4ed6d1156f844c70bc291365703969b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f515ca_36f3413f23bc421cacdf572e8682f14c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f035f8eec18649eebf6ec9c77deffc04.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c560.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC560 5052 bytes
SHA-256: ee3582feaef237f529146f80824b661870ff840a092110ec44ec2b89a58182eb
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6AB 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 8806704da9fd2c980c9bc9f29a9ea0f97a20bc44753e4e01ca53fd4845c5ac93

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