Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26532b44df788fb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 17:14:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 823326d858c7336de2a1350ae9900dbe SHA-1: 905b8b4a4e5c35250afc34c73d06afdf3c0dc33a SHA-256: 26532b44df788fb575c61766e1a738ae6acdfa5cb0246ce37d88e671257d4d24
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.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for a 'fleischner society glossary of terms'. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector 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.cc/pify?keyword=fleischner+society+glossary+of+terms+for+thoracic+imaging+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.eaglemountainvolleyball.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379540/37adb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.allisondgarrett.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775180/7850469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cleanandleanmixes.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874141/lamawugulobazof_xubozaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.itsablessedlife.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874160/8448158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oakmesapta.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776790/lifumu-pedumi-pewobeb-zejefimirupen.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/1/0430/9791/5545/files/wokojavuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3373/8911/files/public_finance_and_public_policy_gruber_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8867/4967/files/68419209892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9776/7592/files/femosaxowosigum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7798/3653/files/xomemojizosinisuzumuxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3058/5250/files/2553012749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7981/1750/files/74854317655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7974/6201/files/ropakepozovunabex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6665/3858/files/drdo_ceptam_9_notification_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4219/4083/files/71586285155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0760/5918/files/6102223418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4102/9276/files/tosub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6245/1611/files/mutual_information_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7395/2158/files/nunerufemepekuvamefu.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_off00004e67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E67 5628 bytes
SHA-256: fdc0cc893560f91c142e7fa202360c7316a5ba91fccb83d5dd2ccbbdc2a209d5
font_01_sfnt_off0000616a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x616A 9980 bytes
SHA-256: 834587120abfface0f9c5bdd69ef1f93c11ce09dd9d72acc2752d94a61640119