Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffb3b332cdc0d674…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.4 KB Created: 2020-08-23 12:50:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 861be6679bd9f758f22fe079fa1b6d05 SHA-1: af5ae76ed040b15e7cb36222a3d8a30f5218a934 SHA-256: ffb3b332cdc0d6745d6edca83cfba932b207974a396223f8bf30f94edf4d173d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.cc) or host PDF files on various domains. The heuristic firings indicate that the PDF is a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to popular games and software, likely as a lure to encourage clicks on the embedded links.

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.cc/pify?keyword=pokemon+blazed+glazed++visual+boy+advance In PDF document text
    • http://kubimire.shonscience.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453526/judinitorolojun-zesusekuzivavuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitomida.thebloodcrowstories.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/suserepinonire-rutejifonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapulijal.floridafoundationdh.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380005/835d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.trustmarkroofing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437978/50bb689ed55ad23.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pizejop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7679/6057/files/vurapuwikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0491/7917/files/binding_of_isaac_godmode_wiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0778/6651/files/99897755936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4280/6680/files/padavofobomur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/9418/0767/files/android_studio_install_location_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2022/1607/files/daguboxaxibem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5114/7679/files/bowuvilajorefibad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9885/7891/files/7420302851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4262/6984/files/97264812611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5225/2829/files/bloomberg_businessweek_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3566/4284/files/learning_and_acquisition_of_english_language.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_off0000555f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x555F 5580 bytes
SHA-256: 6fc217cd1de276ef86ed71e9be5f7cc02d3a3d68b39b372a9a0864422faf506c
font_01_sfnt_off00006866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6866 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 6cc6326234c0ebfa48f73a43e507e4ff05ef2d7307c315e9c87b3f0b97ebe77d