Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d8b48ab00f10616…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-09-09 19:06:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 508db35b12553a88264afa83324691f6 SHA-1: 51f6122e6f0d05693e2412fca3c113f428d4b410 SHA-256: 2d8b48ab00f1061689afed0366b76398e2a29454641eeddf934743da200cbb0b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=best+joomla+admin+template', which is flagged as malicious. Additionally, a large number of links to Shopify-hosted PDFs were found, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The primary intent appears to be redirecting users to malicious infrastructure.

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.club/wix?keyword=best+joomla+admin+template In PDF document text
    • http://files.superiormachineandfab.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815154/5810631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mariposasummerfunstreetfair.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406841/68b339e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oxfordleamingtonclinic.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380951/6508870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bokulawo.integrationz.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696212/salepebobipeke_pelabeledod_supad_dasatekegiwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joluxu.alex-pearl.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682076/8612191.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/1/0427/8213/0332/files/63063816544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rasamonuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6393/4105/files/69816214906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3056/9382/files/96488239829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9275/4841/files/mechanics_of_report_writing_in_research_methodology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9121/3990/files/xagoxezadagomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4829/6857/files/43242666277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3050/3846/files/bloodborne_pc_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4030/1478/files/apj_abdul_kalam_quotes_in_bengali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/0791/0559/files/81238777122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7206/9525/files/71515120095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/volobufepafolosovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8406/9526/files/android_developer_settings_menu.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_off00005a07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A07 5132 bytes
SHA-256: 72d2f4a10c50d06e8a790c35f39cf04bb3c646798d849b5797cd4842f4e4684c
font_01_sfnt_off00006b6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B6E 9616 bytes
SHA-256: dde3b6c1b2d9c350dbeb531263bd0c9d04f19d5a6d12f170dc6df9ab34a1c9cb