Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 396b284f6e4069d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.8 KB Created: 2020-08-01 09:51:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4a82ecd86d68d2a61ae0661dc67b68a6 SHA-1: ed2c21294468a2114e7dcde7be67e2b08719bb86 SHA-256: 396b284f6e4069d074af360335123f3ba3dbe9d047a4de195b72cf118305ab5e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is designed to lead users to further malicious sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'triumph bonneville service manual pdf' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine visibility for 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=triumph+bonneville+service+manual+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.artcreate.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814073/rojivarigore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.trinityepiscopalmarshall.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131436956/1286177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.brooklyndreadlocks.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814644/mezozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.touchofheavenranch.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969548/tavejug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.secondstagehousing.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406780/fisesowama.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/1/0427/8334/2748/files/98718809396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5058/2684/files/dezowukitajowow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9179/6902/files/57445499883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2861/9168/files/nolatutejut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7625/5897/files/15116092890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1684/6488/files/24888476466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pufabupenidobuxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3877/7249/files/babigasuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6295/9006/files/remura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4008/0023/files/small_estates_affidavit_florida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0191/3244/files/vipofuronawodupoxoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6837/2632/files/ad_d_keep_on_the_borderlands.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6803/1143/files/401706179.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_off000051bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x51BD 5544 bytes
SHA-256: 3e788a77395e2b10adf27495df85879d451b81b4c2da78244ce6234ea132cb85
font_01_sfnt_off00006469.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6469 9764 bytes
SHA-256: 583a99263a7f4bcf71933ebc411da919bd3eb09ae5e295b20da399433020f12c