Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 297286ff7e79d4e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 05:52:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3317d311dc6304f5ea6557dc59de78b0 SHA-1: e6a82fbcd0f05574d59c65df803c2e6c18dc914c SHA-256: 297286ff7e79d4e3cc8027cb8f644c8384ed96407f973a2cff332c7dd1c5c65a
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm, suggesting SEO manipulation to attract victims. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the target URL and references a 'civic 2020 service manual pdf', likely a lure. The presence of numerous Shopify links, some benign and others unknown, indicates an attempt to blend malicious content with legitimate resources. The overall pattern suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign leveraging SEO-poisoned PDFs.

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=civic+2020+service+manual+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.denaelovelifestyle.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814234/d28153fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.escondidofoundationarch.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775520/ziburisalewa-jilutawe-bidusida-pokipepif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mi-sheffield.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606368/niludavifek_rerodotite.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/1/0436/8377/4614/files/80778337874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6503/1321/files/bovesobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2807/0052/files/6386227922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1903/5033/files/enlaces_quimicos_en_la_vida_cotidiana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9213/2508/files/tasevetozijazofizidumapuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2589/0469/files/70256438609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0441/8459/files/pufudivemulawamidizokun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6097/7048/files/fumogilaxetomoxixini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9798/1089/files/dunufenuvumagade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4583/1335/files/xadag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tovovowegafakaroseras.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_off000072a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72A5 5540 bytes
SHA-256: e00e7bffc7bd606bf1656b41a68f05f9819c990f9b8397698b839a132a96d371
font_01_sfnt_off0000856e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x856E 11128 bytes
SHA-256: e6b3ab93da6af2cc125ac6ab562fac5003c74654cae71dc02d87cec7d3b34204