Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11554982a8ae305d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-22 10:16:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2f568adb9eaee142cb4ad5251e7078ab SHA-1: 5539095b6b76d4910df86b154e8af4d9a7a0873a SHA-256: 11554982a8ae305da356988cff328814059f4ed454fec6e1fa3114acf1255cd6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though obfuscated, includes the same redirector URL and benign-looking Shopify links, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=bullet+background+paper+template+usaf In PDF document text
    • http://files.maplelanepups.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406537/dd4cf0d5a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.evosilverstudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776641/tekibafega_zunugi_zoronedezimize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kefulu.mohairslim.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682883/192204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tadoneru.whiteplainslodge.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816042/2363122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kakuguwoz.thomasnazario.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775166/dexokokemud.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/17524121831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9448/1821/files/volenav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0297/7700/files/kagutujapuvaxajabovage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1253/0081/files/51910660630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5856/9120/files/45249246243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4877/8400/files/1079277101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/7843/8302/files/gizoxajewebezaxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9432/6944/files/28277054103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8034/1917/files/ruqyah_shariah_by_alafasy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0837/6482/files/66067255262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4245/5195/files/pearson_pre_calculus_11_textbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5072/9634/files/longman_dictionary_of_contemporary_english_download.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_off00006594.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6594 5564 bytes
SHA-256: 5a03f01caf7eed01ef9559809ab25e53f78f3d40871cd5703fdffebf17f3aea4
font_01_sfnt_off00007866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7866 10084 bytes
SHA-256: de37ef91ac3e0d5379202344ec297952fa9b85ca5aed770b3fe786b4c38cb579
font_02_sfnt_off00009ad6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9AD6 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e