Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 289e71b47720ae4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-14 18:54:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b69fdc9dd1f2edc49c9d16e0d877f5d5 SHA-1: d7614c511d916a73da4ce8a3053e4e65293f36b8 SHA-256: 289e71b47720ae4df4f17503b27f1660cfe6ef6987f0f170e2ea2b19c40aaef1
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is further supported by the document body containing a similar URL. The presence of a callback phishing lure also indicates a social engineering attempt. The file is likely used to direct users to malicious sites for phishing or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=toronto+fun+guide+registration+dates In PDF document text
    • http://files.corinewood-donnelly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969298/d1051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lojisara.hoggardstudentservices.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776716/lajerepas_nogafojekafigap_waninalekef_janili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.monikamdesign.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382330/4e5592f11835b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lifewithhelp.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437515/levisinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatogi.freeheartclinic.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607505/a9373701cdb0e.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/1/0431/8016/3229/files/bafemixemawipuwevazem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3701/5719/files/159998140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3604/7522/files/89614977733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1725/6605/files/23762102346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7410/1160/files/18113025230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8014/7359/files/chevrolet_corvette_owners_manual_download_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/25781613666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/47184882359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3240/4380/files/81151968162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4937/7174/files/646634399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4069/4684/files/gungeon_gnawed_key.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_off00006306.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6306 4872 bytes
SHA-256: 8cf47216f2c214c19a1c5266d859ba2cf44ac4d5cebe93feb9432b06c07aed16
font_01_sfnt_off000073a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73A1 10120 bytes
SHA-256: fbf79b5156507821ef26d64e92001edc532a7b53b9f77d58dec08984ef4e0e14
font_02_sfnt_off0000964c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x964C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378