Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1af548d84ceea7f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.5 KB Created: 2020-08-29 12:07:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c427b16d4893928284732a4042980416 SHA-1: baa31ed22c331fb8363396d53cf79aa0d49fa166 SHA-256: 1af548d84ceea7f9edcb2bbc31efa41a89a6c6fb69ff29c12a6af5b1b5eafe44
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=cl2o+bond+angle, which is likely used to direct users to a malicious site. The document body contains garbled text and embedded URLs, further supporting the malicious intent.

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/wix?keyword=cl2o+bond+angle In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ad7a99210a994cf8b5527a8b86da81c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f9094cecce29413e8dbf969416a669a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9e1c665a6c0f4ef59084568526fe18b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2fb266e499a54490bb06de81e88ea0c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_660a542f2a6240eca9ad1025ebc1719f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ee60ffe794b9420398a5a1d2f0fbddd4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_435fc61ce0cf48f4baf93d65ab1f9093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/66c878_61addb6417bc4dffbb659e30823c70f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_903b726c902b488586ce359cbef7db61.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_958296bf50a54ab59f4d998d3d98c7f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kesutuzijakakewinepubad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5014/7733/files/grade_12_mathematics_platinum_textbook_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/31906594002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5912/5160/files/barcelona_team_players_formation.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006801.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6801 6492 bytes
SHA-256: b9c1bd2281f23f09d905494077011cda678d8ff8a20e62f41a46584ce81a564d
font_01_sfnt_off00007836.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7836 4896 bytes
SHA-256: a05aaf5074fcc5b50c5edf5361b5795503ed6e27833086c7c4f3e308f2e43e57
font_02_sfnt_off000088e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88E7 11528 bytes
SHA-256: c31b9d49049c141bdaa88cd978843a3bec249b9b83fc425ed1a84ccc06f05f41
font_03_sfnt_off0000af80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF80 16100 bytes
SHA-256: dfdc6983d3c42b81f9741fa6cdceaab3e97c1fbda00e6274acf933e6ff911e94