Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06aab92038fe9ba0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.9 KB Created: 2020-08-08 06:49:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 03f8a10a862c358ba0a893910d403d50 SHA-1: 78aabd1d225f2dcc4959bf1cb659019529d3c050 SHA-256: 06aab92038fe9ba09f675e201f8d3626eb276122015d61cf339a08db7abeebde
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a malicious redirector and part of an SEO link farm, designed to lure users into clicking links. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=effect+of+acid+rain+on+plants+pdf, which is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting its purpose is to drive traffic to this malicious site.

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=effect+of+acid+rain+on+plants+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lena-nyc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874567/323220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zowexel.theopenuniversalist.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969332/9065175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.1st-yass-scouts.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070089/rolevubixu_nifutukawad_jejelipado_putotuvilamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.s3arc.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637136/9a2c3dff1a69.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/1/0432/7525/5972/files/46808176170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6227/8809/files/kuxigupokupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5802/6903/files/powonukorixotezirepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0058/5632/files/vedunodiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/duliwoledemovaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6046/9660/files/amlodipine_besylate_davis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/71482320097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5768/4375/files/wemizadanaxoven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0675/4970/files/8326116840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9091/2159/files/numorudivigamiwefakum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6393/4105/files/18200161945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5918/2745/files/95914016320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6108/3301/files/58248612865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4876/2529/files/13494446025.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008bd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BD3 4896 bytes
SHA-256: 3f1e5e58fbed34ab3b38b176e525f3d86e43d1b9d7a4812244089d6650372718
font_01_sfnt_off00009c76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C76 12116 bytes
SHA-256: d728546b17d8d0822a8ed6b1b8d7d00b40794f9e40c37acf8a7bcd86c6f0ab7a
font_02_sfnt_off0000c416.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC416 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361