Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 566158a1bea9a432…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.4 KB Created: 2020-08-20 09:51:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9ad3cb12fbc4d20dcc301430c37b2171 SHA-1: 481a5a7ed9af5d1a3e3eb1507fb9dc4bb84d4b30 SHA-256: 566158a1bea9a432223a210bda22765e91354b816d4cf813371f6a20220b8d79
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. This link is presented within the document body, disguised as an 'Engineering guide'. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content or phishing pages.

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=engineering+guide+bfa+wow In PDF document text
    • http://files.thothandi.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969499/ec83906c2c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theporchcommunitychurch.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131608037/7363351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baxoz.jillianbessett.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856584/newubejenubegef_lavemobapawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wouterbergenhuizen.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814769/meguwiwabojusesuzed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5193/4108/files/72886689557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4189/7110/files/bezonasabuvedewexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5096/4904/files/oxigeno_y_radicales_libres.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7708/0990/files/useful_phrases_for_business_emails.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9340/9438/files/guniduxixatowonufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9982/4032/files/software_engineering_ian_sommerville_10th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5942/0063/files/practice_of_brahmacharya_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/90841244024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/anarchism_in_latin_america.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5452/8677/files/messenger_for_iphone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5868/3294/files/cemal_paa_hatralar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8176/7841/files/school_marksheet_format.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7847/5162/files/jezoxadoron.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006b7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B7F 4856 bytes
SHA-256: 88d46ff2b65d72c3047c1fa5a0a5347796d7d0e5d37362637f2f1b9f78644027
font_01_sfnt_off00007c17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C17 10060 bytes
SHA-256: 4489f8b4f71a587bec877d7a670c286d223e1a51ffddd7c0b185cb8c5a2cebf9
font_02_sfnt_off00009e92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E92 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361