Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 296bf6affcd5461e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-22 07:11:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cd1ab4f141928f379428217c5f79b2e8 SHA-1: 8f0713df39876e0b1d67c6ead121dad59ca64477 SHA-256: 296bf6affcd5461e1d0bdd414007eb4fe214e64de6e21ba2cdf81359270d0a6e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is designed to lead users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links to other PDFs, likely for SEO manipulation to improve the ranking of the malicious redirector. 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=acidosis+tubular+renal+tratamiento+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mogudeja.nexgenwork.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775436/fitutipeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zififokog.veteransfurniturecenter.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407089/xobikimudum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.asa989.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437724/nerokutemuwat_begozozawep_filiwevax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.makeuplocker.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969083/7893116.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/1/0456/4448/0679/files/lipezafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8542/2997/files/jusukag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1279/2221/files/alter_ego_plus_b1_corriges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5156/4707/files/lalorisowifadugizawumiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3035/1770/files/cds_examination_syllabus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6826/8456/files/php_uploader_script.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2777/4115/files/gmail_app_android_multiple_accounts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4656/8098/files/vekurajemagizefagafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/fokukivovasogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5541/5445/files/sorolenugigu.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000065b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65B1 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 4f8953644f2d252e1a50d3287a66e0b9b85324a6effea3fcc690cffa63a5f1fc
font_01_sfnt_off000077fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77FD 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 8869564433afbc4b10c7cc94bde4770fb45342d4b8b879ed7b296860901f77b1

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