Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22f55925edb60e1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.6 KB Created: 2020-08-26 07:41:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 85e25d525ba321a9a2a3b20ef961ac74 SHA-1: 30eb0b189d4314beee2ec3aca159176ac92311d8 SHA-256: 22f55925edb60e1b1f2e01e8b7cf1b4c67ae27f7f207dde44672ebdcabb83650
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a malicious redirector link disguised as sheet music, which leads to a link farm of other PDF files. The primary malicious URL is ttraff.com, which is known to host redirectors. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains the lure text and the malicious URL.

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=heathers+the+musical+lifeboat+sheet+music In PDF document text
    • http://files.rozanalee.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872055/4999917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metovijox.fenianfear.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740708/tinogotasebodofusij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vopofaket.penultimatephotos.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969264/kuxijapufidugoj-jomawizakog-zejejegekizudi-setobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.noirfashion.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775506/vajuninitid-tarugisaban-puzaxam.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/1/0428/9921/0407/files/tamadufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2806/7990/files/jinixezirozorezikoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5109/6993/files/39213759297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7005/4805/files/xapudajatezunegunixutiduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8945/3473/files/powufegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7188/8803/files/loxezafij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3876/7264/files/54822434318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/1617/6036/files/3925416144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3724/5085/files/ferajorasod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9363/8822/files/diabetes_ketoasidosis_adalah.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_off0000449e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x449E 5220 bytes
SHA-256: aa116f3d08aa0b2e7964c73750ffd0b653fa8e59a5fecb3d3104fda106bcb8ad
font_01_sfnt_off00005633.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5633 10324 bytes
SHA-256: bf38124e72518b1835ed6ac6cecb5a0b30b5e0d88387a876b49faeddadc5a854