Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 367e9eb9ff7a74b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.9 KB Created: 2020-08-20 10:33:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 50154a860b3745696cfa2a89ba11a98d SHA-1: 36511642565ab1852991fee44257f1095032e462 SHA-256: 367e9eb9ff7a74b13abec17cc2c45bc1da074c4e88f7a95734c143589b85ae8c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and appears to be a lure for theme music. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely to obscure the malicious redirector. The primary malicious IOC is the ttraff.com URL, which is likely used to host or redirect to further malicious content.

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=alaipayuthey+bgm+theme+music In PDF document text
    • http://files.freerangeworship.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453855/e5e71.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thebenchleyweinbergerlife.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815017/zemosenomelelig-guzezemop-jenewadutilola-nigulivizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gatiwow.rytiskonst.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406202/lutivupakudap.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/1/0429/3971/1655/files/kickboxing_training_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8371/0117/files/noderogisapogerowajotar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9463/8749/files/rikuzoxiwafanini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0528/6296/files/21671298655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8538/9206/files/28889911697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0510/8636/files/52679965710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/5568/5288/files/woxevaxifepapijemibitog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5396/4712/files/going_to_college_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0621/4819/files/82157455760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6068/1109/files/gixojolujiroxusiguzasuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8814/2743/files/ink_master_torrent.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0744/1053/files/91123207770.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_off00004654.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4654 5484 bytes
SHA-256: 1097ba8450e6025ff562f520c11c8da3fa45a61796d5762f55796685e8bdc7be
font_01_sfnt_off000058db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58DB 9916 bytes
SHA-256: 487807bf0873ef16f4e2f0c4d9da9acdea9db5e7bc86c00cc82ea5f18b04211a