Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25fa9b68e61d8e0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2020-08-26 06:46:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: be0603ee74046d4633569776d7d7bd5f SHA-1: 7c196faa49dfb2873910271617f700f88217e861 SHA-256: 25fa9b68e61d8e0f0054f35959d270721a5e146230b4b53902be7928ca7e0369
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.club'. This link is presented within the document body, disguised as a file download. The PDF also contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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.club/pify?keyword=technical+analysis+for+dummies+_2nd_edition.+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.berlangadentures.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873795/papusowe_buraruteruluruj_zigegafoxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raxuzij.ckc3.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379594/tejobalunira-beboli-lofut-jeketovat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gexagajov.volleyballexperience.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453945/c325b64cc59.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.weddingmemory.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131405977/rikefazobig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8259/6004/files/xakiroxivibekopozefelame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0455/4752/0165/files/87160273314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0629/1102/files/56231699411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5453/7624/files/emerald_tablets_translation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5698/8311/files/nubizus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9825/7048/files/wokum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6905/4886/files/basic_electrical_and_electronics_engineering_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8466/0380/files/subordinating_conjunctions_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3025/7568/files/subject_and_verb_agreement_practice_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1055/4013/files/sumilixetupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8874/7423/files/aditya_birla_sun_life_insurance_receipt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/9970/2694/files/35362387004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gujogu.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f008.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF008 5520 bytes
SHA-256: 2d6853ce4aba2a4a906f9d4ffd5545f3e96f46b5d56744269f1b18059617144d
font_01_sfnt_off000102af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102AF 15584 bytes
SHA-256: 87002c8f6aa3bd3e02bafe74d6f5ca046b153842d7a9fc2f692f00f166da058a
font_02_sfnt_off000132ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132AD 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2