Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f8486a5863394c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB Created: 2020-08-05 09:48:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e0a61aa5d72f8e2cfee0a95167735a2c SHA-1: baec00975e9220b200859cd8dd8bb154d259abf6 SHA-256: 2f8486a5863394c7e400c538f5d54cd95b8a24c66459c5ac868dda0acd4c4ddf
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including a critical redirector link to 'ttraff.com', suggesting a phishing or redirection attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and references a 'roald dahl pdf', likely a lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links further indicates a link farm or redirection strategy.

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=galloping+foxley+roald+dahl+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mhdany.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969986/7105548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bakingwithella.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871852/temudutedegalivejoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xorirarig.sophiasoasisforequines.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874085/4573007.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/1/0430/5462/9015/files/81472524635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7957/3414/files/pimujewaxinugusebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6296/5912/files/49673604138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4016/2467/files/pidifemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7746/7288/files/ace_academy_notes_for_ece_pdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9474/6023/files/sokurezixesedavatefina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4953/3088/files/wujotizetugab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7318/3643/files/tosomazip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9055/0679/files/litterature_negritude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1311/9905/files/38790634153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6581/8790/files/add_png_image_to_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2287/5797/files/dum_dum_girls_coming_down.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9925/0072/files/73219493256.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off000096dd.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x96DD 22448 bytes
SHA-256: ac3c8ba20a8741aa82462742c74416c3313074d2981c43e5d9f844b6d4bc7aec
font_00_sfnt_off00006296.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6296 5328 bytes
SHA-256: a6b4f3d454cb370f4295e09922ecf21d6f88d82edf8b2d287f253b6839ba9edf
font_01_sfnt_off000074be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74BE 9920 bytes
SHA-256: db0d8d7f4fa1a6f0e80af6aca5f60af4b9d4af3e01e76c881126bf520366926e