Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1de227db0c10114e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.4 KB Created: 2020-07-30 01:43:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8c422be8cb7c554e8f972b96943b4936 SHA-1: 3bd2e05f77dde76cf6c3068ba4b68898dd052fe1 SHA-256: 1de227db0c10114eacb100f66e96aace6233e7047a2d2a728d32b109dd84ca17
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf and includes a keyword related to administrative audits, likely a lure. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is designed to lead users to further malicious content.

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=auditoria+administrativa+joaquin+rodriguez+valencia+libro+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.essenceofblissmassage.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739268/razurapiriro-wirakixawil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sunshinecharities.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070982/xerebuteneke-suleziwur-wipat-bolaradonizuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.uniqorner.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856771/713365.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/1/0432/0067/6001/files/55773575909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4584/6168/files/68390194015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4749/4567/files/dojakivirit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1302/0570/files/37089993621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/80804151078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5622/5688/files/kugigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5586/4215/files/23453633110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8869/0844/files/dorifug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8475/9711/files/fulefarolelimogagarol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3301/6982/files/muxinof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/11067845032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8538/0246/files/fakawinuwiwujevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2793/0011/files/bejumolebepamagomerevuwi.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_off0000551e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x551E 5800 bytes
SHA-256: ff472160be1c339e3221f92e22ec8c203db8b457a748fffe6bf222763c7bc5e8
font_01_sfnt_off000068be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68BE 10224 bytes
SHA-256: e88f45a4db8df973af906c6a77a77f66b193b64e6640807f78e5778b4a4e1020