Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26ea31688896c354…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-15 08:45:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b05787a457d9ad625b26f228505df3cf SHA-1: 2888167976ae9215acbdffc290bc255ac3460f41 SHA-256: 26ea31688896c35454381c373170c55dcb77665ae2a453eca0e226439a82573c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the target URL and benign-looking product search terms, suggesting a lure. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=white+platform+sneakers+2019 In PDF document text
    • http://files.mairibudreau.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776864/ziwawajobigogefivane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.artgoop.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775543/wuzifinagavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kesav.playful-pedagogy.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813108/mawitugogisuze_toped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mountaintreecare.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740352/37ffe64ac62d.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/1/0428/4976/3494/files/51856832989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5362/2182/files/eu_creio_pequeno_catecismo_catolico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3136/2725/files/backroom_casting_couch_compilation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4272/5285/files/ziterotusefixapomadude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0455/8488/files/zogalasaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5054/0964/files/barezinefavilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9114/8454/files/1295762222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4472/4133/files/15641493768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5730/7039/files/rozalovonefafaterulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3275/5875/files/windansea_surf_cam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2691/files/xeturasebuvamogixuxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5091/7269/files/pdf_to_word_converter_online_free_zamzar.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_off000070fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70FC 5700 bytes
SHA-256: c3c9f9a0c95b3493d8ab70aa4a4ee4357d3dea93f19f581484b60bb206eda589
font_01_sfnt_off0000844a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x844A 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 2012ebab6797837937b01aed63222a0ea2096cf8d848ec17531b64004ebffcc7