Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54a2ee83458ac598…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.5 KB Created: 2020-08-12 05:23:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b5a9971f23f5f366876f645e88ce0d45 SHA-1: fc6dbbae9a722aa4da56c0242c5ba22c1db45f2e SHA-256: 54a2ee83458ac598bf04175fc83d0dfb00c02e54c94cc6624168340ecd8fb8fc
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a redirector, ttraff.com, which is known to host malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'swing trading power strategies pdf' and includes the malicious URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to attract traffic and potentially distribute further payloads.

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=swing+trading+power+strategies+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.nicoleshanks.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776168/romomukepa-wifixufezodov-laguvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dineg.revolutioninkstudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637814/3148762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.reliablealliancefinancialllc.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740637/kapazezuzajitakixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.luxfull-global.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398428/zubepigowirinoveni.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/1/0438/3644/0726/files/26779586939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0888/3870/files/dalok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9212/3560/files/xezegifase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8683/1004/files/arithmetic_and_geometric_sequences_foldable.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4355/2416/files/60352317545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4474/8950/files/28362963205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9167/9639/files/49847127733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0463/2992/files/91191510844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7697/4747/files/verb_agreement_rules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7697/5768/files/titur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9702/1861/files/cardiovascular_physiology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2677/6227/files/83138024921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7945/1289/files/advanced_cardiovascular_life_support_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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000080c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80C9 5372 bytes
SHA-256: e2a6e00fa87a9e3a5828126c3306e4cc4623b5d983717ec97603261d89e45b7a
font_01_sfnt_off00009328.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9328 11048 bytes
SHA-256: bc6851b035a29bcc0935fbe93ea0d404d1dd6997525721eae633ede64fa3904f

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