Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2df27ed7e55e3f2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-22 19:04:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a0b05bc3959338b4ac932236c7e07745 SHA-1: 6f3ce98578d9a70f4a4c028a8a2a76b525c0a220 SHA-256: 2df27ed7e55e3f2db6af02345f8faccc0c92200a22aa81311b3bf515bbba9d6f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains. The document body contains the same malicious URL and a reference to 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting it was generated programmatically. The primary intent appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via the 'ttraff.com' redirector.

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=c%252F+o+kancharapalem+songs++naa In PDF document text
    • http://files.hdloolbox.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164063/22b22213f9e.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/1/0438/5934/5573/files/astm_a1061_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3019/8937/files/asterix_and_obelix_comics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/5303/6199/files/automation_test_strategy_document.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7666/2934/files/sda_baptism_bible_study.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6891/4838/files/tuluvagijoregivedoxosigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0415/8364/files/adobe_lightroom_6_torrent.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0166/6969/files/2004_bombardier_outlander_400_service_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4456/8216/files/domain_driven_design_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7780/3931/files/12738263012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9232/9119/files/85876003506.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_off00006b65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B65 5352 bytes
SHA-256: 01923e186df07e04f2cd2e8fb4a4bdd0b9f3f9c4b169f3ec0fd6b92d149fe134
font_01_sfnt_off00007d7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D7B 12900 bytes
SHA-256: d120d01ffeb0cecc3326c72e9f9f81959aea653df4fe647dc84523c25bf291ff

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