Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 389bbcffa7c364a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 10:41:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5e2f42c7a049341bcb007d8cfa5be463 SHA-1: 219ef2c0bb892403998d5abc8bc89912c0838444 SHA-256: 389bbcffa7c364a12a960a794a6e51adaf4a79540ca25591cf3805565551c4f3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=budapest+tourist+map+pdf', which is designed to lead users to malicious content. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which point to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Budapest tourist map pdf' and the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users through the ttraff.cc domain.

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=budapest+tourist+map+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.johntroypainter.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856257/af0f493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hafcafproductions.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776079/deramatozipe-zejuwutebekaxi-wukojip-gowofoguvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hvtelovestudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606101/jijesugigukododi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.isetnb.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131860378/rimoluvedebede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.buchspielerrecords.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873794/511a5f7151e9.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/1/0434/6462/2246/files/vajeselixusituxowari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/11067845032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8820/6238/files/balance_druid_bis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2846/2243/files/70128161770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/43127542751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0813/0197/files/derazorewetetesurobatafux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1781/3661/files/55058822715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3406/7615/files/kixutaxibarogunapuluvoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2779/9969/files/150740059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1321/8210/files/free_bearing_interchange_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3993/2064/files/poe_leveling_uniques.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0595/2671/files/24572160374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6375/4404/files/85338384443.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_off00006337.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6337 5204 bytes
SHA-256: 4192288ec79e0fa57e0f64f1cbb7b93755bbd4748617280c36b90e356ec758df
font_01_sfnt_off000074da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74DA 10064 bytes
SHA-256: 16bb0da6e49995eb8ce6206ac753bf0d22f5cc65f1d922715c79bd8e39b15602