Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d5b6eb9fb332663…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.9 KB Created: 2020-07-31 23:57:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 55881c67fd6baf987e5971b861344462 SHA-1: d74d89bd2cd5f790065f0f6c1ee0b1ce92da0f05 SHA-256: 1d5b6eb9fb33266393404330b626750147926c7d764655e5a8661355babbcfd8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious infrastructure at 'ttraff.cc'. This suggests a social engineering attack aiming to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Pmp flashcards 5th edition pdf' and the malicious URL, reinforcing the lure.

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.cc/pify?keyword=pmp+flashcards+5th+edition+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.empowerherct.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739398/7306693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gemscorner.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775752/8518475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.novelsf.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483550/mataxopawowojuvuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.harrisondomain.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408172/2013890.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/1/0431/8865/0142/files/47492761885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7967/9656/files/56132424244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6323/8056/files/wuludikuzira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6926/6325/files/wisdom_saving_throw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/65788935473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4207/8877/files/nitom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9234/4999/files/47124067352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4614/2114/files/sidezenapinomemakizejaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4834/5500/files/30789706404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8360/3873/files/63755765373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6335/3250/files/82441075013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/24501063531.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008a4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A4E 5520 bytes
SHA-256: af2874607944f94c57115c0dee6092e447b1ea06aa5b2e11aaf90cdc935f37c0
font_01_sfnt_off00009ced.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CED 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 4db3e3308841cb89a07808296d343c020d984e28c8dfd91658bf98a84ff5885a

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