Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 108faa07985b1b85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-14 23:13:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 08d6e25be4a6da06db9e4f6c81df941b SHA-1: f214306e7220d764901fedbf1fb348cab4ed0a03 SHA-256: 108faa07985b1b85dddc0ef2b2ecf935d5ee7f19630738f3b4d75650e826b79d
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous links designed to appear as legitimate book downloads, but they redirect to malicious infrastructure. The primary redirector identified is 'ttraff.cc', which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to the same redirector URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise the malicious intent as a free download lure. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=peter+lynch+beating+the+street+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.buckinghamshirelandscapegardeners.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775607/4747481.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/1/0434/2772/5474/files/31026484126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6158/2755/files/8830496806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0385/3469/files/mevemiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3162/5882/files/xotik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4570/0262/files/tofajovimeximuvebeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7583/6840/files/28234615097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kewosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1373/2512/files/xls_to_google_sheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51108684678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4782/2236/files/62005620710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1720/6949/files/serixibodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8374/2884/files/togof.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_off00006967.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6967 5660 bytes
SHA-256: 8f1eb81ce8846a1ff894dd2d89df3f6f3592b7b6645be159035a924b238e2a1c
font_01_sfnt_off00007c97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C97 9688 bytes
SHA-256: e2b8ad65e3f386f4b331aab79b521924e17612b403b4212d0bf27070a5f912da