Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ac91d4b5cd697e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.9 KB Created: 2020-09-01 02:07:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b55208bcfa4ecfe7452233a5533860c1 SHA-1: b539039d1113e5e20ac7b661cc5163936a27caee SHA-256: 2ac91d4b5cd697e69e9e9fe20631d78916cf79290a62ab9b3eab55f1f345bfc2
274 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a lure related to 'Destiny 2 pc battlenet', suggesting a credential harvesting or phishing attempt. It includes a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com', which is likely part of a phishing campaign. Additionally, the PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple benign PDFs hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com', a common tactic to obscure malicious intent. The presence of MFA lure heuristics further supports a credential harvesting scenario.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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/wix?keyword=destiny+2+pc++battlenet In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83d902_b3b96649402f46d99da9afe1b02f4024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_13c6e15a2bbb44e0960c249ea6c64255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bf07b1_8b037dd1723c4416ba0a1ead4e0c00ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4c76bf_8c95579658494b968cbba337bbc6706f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/111c46_9661d83102ab4dd091dff13989fe8661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0f1025a04ad5401f862ceab7ce9da77f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6c032c_e844870e37ff4a569edaa801e6033a35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1537/9866/files/nobud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6823/3630/files/nipijag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8905/2316/files/57230569441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7188/9817/files/mibixebagusukog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7870/3511/files/95489191587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0808/9499/files/ginedevapegeki.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_off00005689.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5689 5204 bytes
SHA-256: 53d6211eeb1cd7dc1ed373c4147392e6602bcc1d54d69147302a6fa0670266c4
font_01_sfnt_off0000685a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x685A 10272 bytes
SHA-256: 89c65df8f98b202cd3016713edbceddbcc39e52d906ad5db7a579ff8c7a23720

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