Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a8cd28d5ec7eadf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.4 KB Created: 2020-08-11 02:02:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7dd52a558d2c790cb7ed084a13341b20 SHA-1: 15088e712f0d1619a72079d16f9728ad888ff947 SHA-256: 2a8cd28d5ec7eadf73ce4f3ff24c0db57b1d3504aae3952abec115b65e5c024f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to ttraff.com, which is used in a lure for a '506 assignment answer'. The document body also contains this URL, confirming its presence. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting PDF files, likely to improve search engine ranking for malicious lures.

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=506+assignment+answer+in+english+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.onlinepetcaredirectory.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683142/420081a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fumclaredo.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872087/zupirewo_pogelotamanizi_jasij_tukesigijuvota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.montessoritodayinc.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968996/e17d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.flowingbodypilates.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437987/daeef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cagaub.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814043/bb7b7a10.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/1/0437/3492/5463/files/nysc_registration_form_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2684/0737/files/88414224441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5059/8562/files/denumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4909/0200/files/construction_of_calomel_electrode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2001/0140/files/rojipozokerodotefejobuvuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0183/8757/files/gastroparesis_diet_plan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5564/3813/files/loguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8083/5482/files/big_java_horstmann.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5496/2590/files/centre_of_gravity_formula_for_different_shapes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1415/1589/files/62338302465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6470/4662/files/2834934024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3949/6094/files/dapamanetubududezamazodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1535/5042/files/adenoma_hipofisario_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2965/9797/files/cabanellas_diccionario.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_off00007e7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E7F 5872 bytes
SHA-256: cf5d38dbb1090e840405fe637fbc0fc580c15c121934d50410e9cb6717d05cc5
font_01_sfnt_off00009252.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9252 13088 bytes
SHA-256: 5099d36a5c184c64b5d4c07fe0b8503559ea5f540950ea32c2da71a02f17fb7e