Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59ae50b48660a625…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-20 04:59:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 58e67c9ccfd75973f2d1250c13916b94 SHA-1: 8b312d7c55a675307ec697ac6f9c544b3cec62dc SHA-256: 59ae50b48660a625b5120a202884bb076d8c123f2c23726f3103323b9b55ea69
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the 'ttraff.com' redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that is also present in the heuristics, indicating a deliberate attempt to lure users to this malicious site. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a tactic to obscure the malicious redirector behind seemingly benign content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=bridge+to+terabithia+screenplay+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ohioyarn.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398555/7a41a8a63277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mekebexo.livingfaithbc.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438397/3943010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.losangelesspacover.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857334/8aae92972cf.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/1/0432/8944/4510/files/90352872286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9621/0594/files/53323269930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/8944/5283/files/facebook_ipo_roadshow_presentation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3694/2234/files/55543379776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5618/4992/files/49674945176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2174/6847/files/pevewipajavis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2400/6820/files/jadudopikozekoguwul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7995/7669/files/lettre_de_motivation_en_anglais_pour_universit.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_off00007a5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A5D 5708 bytes
SHA-256: 82b0c4cdcf6c1cb264eab9a0b2aebbb13f24812115fe4be35b63db7c5e385b6e
font_01_sfnt_off00008dba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DBA 10136 bytes
SHA-256: 3de54a69ccb9dc5886ee4f122c689a355084bd213b6e92d9dbf0908b5cdb620d

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