Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ba1c5d5cd47164e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-07-30 10:45:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7f1a80574811cbbc4f02d4a29dc56701 SHA-1: c1e7630b602ad9889c8e30be367798f06b659430 SHA-256: 2ba1c5d5cd47164e3c6e8d5a023da49f657fca46c5e252eb066398f7397321ab
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic firing indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. Another critical heuristic identifies this as a PDF SEO link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search results or distribute malicious content through a large number of links. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDFs from web content, which aligns with the link farm heuristic.

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=manifestasi+klinis+anemia+defisiensi+besi+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.guideconcept.ch/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452800/1264247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aesklarskiokb.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483491/5850132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.soulponyportraits.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384175/mitugudozozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.missinternationalaustralia.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740338/pidopoje-lijotebo.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/1/0434/0957/1990/files/12124207081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4686/8891/files/605228457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4237/3785/files/juraguxotup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2398/3001/files/61932368375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1158/7752/files/11272410774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1571/6516/files/90674801879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5620/9819/files/85863311524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9291/8937/files/3312065712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3577/0535/files/80092223503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4395/4594/files/93202277138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2274/4741/files/58643698734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9199/3500/files/razag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0181/3915/files/21795952283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5771/7152/files/zawevoremim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9721/1551/files/1758406194.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_off0000762c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x762C 4980 bytes
SHA-256: 276763a13edb40d7dee0258a6f1788fde92c75e5f9c63cddcad68d2cb9318ef4
font_01_sfnt_off000086fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86FC 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 8c44a5f8ddd7fe5448e7e0079058929a63f0f90a04510c9448692f37db9677d7