Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2eb5841569b39e61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.5 KB Created: 2020-08-20 21:26:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 899e4812a7da5fdeff494db16d3b1494 SHA-1: 7124c4becc513b95f96ad45872b6c4da0d40ad6e SHA-256: 2eb5841569b39e61744b4ab33ff5a7046b22eadef63bd3803f7e983acd73ecf0
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, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other embedded URLs, suggesting a lure for users to click through to malicious content. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, further indicates a link farm strategy to distribute malicious content. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=marvelous+designer+8+free, which likely leads to a further stage of infection.

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.cc/pify?keyword=marvelous+designer+8+free In PDF document text
    • http://kipilu.goldencoastbailbonds.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712237/valojamivaxoxi-puxenox-mikunifupekuk-luvumag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.parsonsarea.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303406/xasosefebekus-relivajosur.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/1/0434/8346/3832/files/39654920253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4100/5480/files/finuwiratolefolunake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4647/8758/files/30663631789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6720/9883/files/proyecto_arpanet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6937/2576/files/fofoxudabipelifaxefup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0333/7115/files/kukudexabezorokizinufuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/1028728638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8702/8641/files/libro_el_poder_curativo_de_la_cabala_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8343/2096/files/siyavula_physical_science_grade_11_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4574/6838/files/46673365864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8116/1121/files/employee_recognition_award_templates_free.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006757.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6757 5332 bytes
SHA-256: f7299e77a8304efb9767a4817b4e88b69c252788107f4f82b119bc295bd5be68
font_01_sfnt_off00007998.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7998 10096 bytes
SHA-256: 58ac0b52e46190873b8dcd5e5702c953fb1bc1f687f00425c948409f9aa7df8b
font_02_sfnt_off00009c6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C6D 16100 bytes
SHA-256: 864a95936e1548be9f862905bcef73366e25af90dbbfd591b5cee1365db9df95