Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ea6411cb3108c22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-06 17:04:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b99b9d435d07ca94431eb346d9506154 SHA-1: 391c0b2b85351605abad8f2cd3051aab3864fcfb SHA-256: 1ea6411cb3108c22489a0a2b027981d6e1117ffd908936b5693483b8f2c9a078
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, includes the same URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of numerous other links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a potential link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute the malicious PDF. No scripts were extracted, and the PDF structure itself does not reveal further malicious intent beyond the redirector.

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=citric+acid+production+by+aspergillus+niger+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.wairarapamassagetherapy.co.nz/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438056/bunolizali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.blueknightsncviii.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969580/tedozi_wiresiju_lerozoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.plbra.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873893/131952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newum.4wellrules.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739227/bewum-bebiserebixi.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/1/0438/7930/1288/files/majora_s_mask_n64_rom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9785/8972/files/colt_mustang_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4052/9816/files/68906013440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2051/5488/files/82859525408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2216/3866/files/21338905520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0670/5311/files/6414703694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6262/2358/files/54114533694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6836/6760/files/what_are_some_common_discord_server_rules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2095/1445/files/6408690215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5411/2672/files/24916201139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sagomowaroperovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2702/7352/files/data_mining_tutorial_point.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9906/8310/files/1864970218.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_off0000731a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x731A 5472 bytes
SHA-256: 26bd2639ffbaf51bb442c8b94a32658f73093f2b3efe21e5c0b4a828d6399d23
font_01_sfnt_off000085c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85C3 9936 bytes
SHA-256: 740278dcc90748fa2b3d7d1e4ef4d5c8cf53f77a9b5e1dd31bafed55aea4df0c

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