Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59bd6fc91e6e0d24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.3 KB Created: 2020-08-15 18:42:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2f7623144048c5436de711b43185971c SHA-1: 7bece6e5543b8c93ddacb39dfa1fe26a9cb44c3c SHA-256: 59bd6fc91e6e0d24c34e07c35c3985a3c317fe7e99c318b1727ff9a67cc2afff
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 pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'lymphatic system concept map answers' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The PDF also exhibits a link farm behavior, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify, potentially to distribute further payloads or engage in SEO manipulation. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=lymphatic+system+concept+map+answers In PDF document text
    • http://rafun.ourladyqueenofpeace.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406390/5818276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.freebackgroundphotos.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969659/ribuwamagunazu_viwalitom_waninozenowig_gesetekupege.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/1/0437/5897/7178/files/mechanism_of_synaptic_transmission.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1089/9624/files/42372599119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8134/3900/files/80174703375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7329/6789/files/zoboxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1898/5377/files/chemistry_periodic_table.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0455/1590/files/ketokopazoradopolanotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9561/1805/files/73616853852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6125/6091/files/geburilodada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7241/4106/files/12112957442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8957/6601/files/big_balls_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3234/6773/files/31871454370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9562/1796/files/39851599923.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_off00004888.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4888 5276 bytes
SHA-256: 563c3c0dbb58c8beffa928399d5f0fd8e18654e6d6fe699a2464d6c7d37e8a20
font_01_sfnt_off00005a60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A60 9980 bytes
SHA-256: ee624cb4c01ae6dec2ad694474a12dd4b2a76936ef30cece1cb4ca6da3c6a967

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