Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d559e019069db67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.7 KB Created: 2020-08-23 02:56:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e14e542ec8e515bbba260291a6d91e2a SHA-1: fd080361c84225145692a9a45731cb307746101c SHA-256: 1d559e019069db67dd5dc02c82a3f62f08b4dbdf542827c190679d97d4a2ce34
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=adobe+photoshop+cs5+full+tutorial+pdf', which is likely intended to lure the user into downloading malicious content. The presence of a 'Download Button' heuristic further supports this phishing or social engineering attempt.

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=adobe+photoshop+cs5+full+tutorial+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.houserootscoffee.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871659/fisitawabaris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.michaeljarett.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815767/gilej_fofavinos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.senseconstructions.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775997/10e0a3c10fbf2a6.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/1/0434/3165/7621/files/61507224443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/8505/4361/files/sinevolake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3722/8188/files/jiwiloni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4389/8022/files/birthday_song_punjabi_audio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1924/5467/files/wow_classic_rogue_lockpicking_guide_horde.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3080/5653/files/banjo_tooie_levels.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7373/2768/files/21760915321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3762/9348/files/25981904380.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_off0000c022.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC022 5496 bytes
SHA-256: 5d5bbfe95689b525e496357af068fdb9f85c3a23b8c4ec5af7028896922761b3
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2CE 10388 bytes
SHA-256: c88deefd0538edf5137ec967904938bb91173f4fe917d2c50395e8b728806ff1