Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59c30cf5d2098f2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.1 KB Created: 2020-08-02 05:43:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: df8b5b727416722828e95ac11e62d048 SHA-1: 7ec6af6b0b1c8cc6b2fd4d51a01edd877bcec9ed SHA-256: 59c30cf5d2098f2d4da949eeb3912c8f002370db736237ec449f888bc73d7dae
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 heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Google sheets data validation' and the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering lure. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, which is indicative of a link farm designed to obscure the true malicious destination.

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=google+sheets+data+validation In PDF document text
    • http://files.mysmartinspection.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384335/funiduwifovimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kathybromerphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070112/200a7f3fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mountainviewmedicalcentre.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874324/2797944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wakarusaumc.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398323/9174e.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mujunevuduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8451/2406/files/37944947746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0096/9896/files/38363650245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8984/5671/files/90089439042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9151/6826/files/buzosojesog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0304/3230/files/rodawaneliwofopela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9894/8255/files/15581316093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8425/1285/files/wubaxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8996/0865/files/zotemalekotubigevuxewofom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5398/1594/files/34794345705.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_off000075bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75BC 4868 bytes
SHA-256: 0835daea059bbc80e226bd843c91b90c9820264a6f92f287d5e73b1eedb350ef
font_01_sfnt_off0000864f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x864F 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 2fe8e6b6cce5a31c54df252816e3daa5535b7ed7053feea85416ea1a44ff1830
font_02_sfnt_off0000a9bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA9BF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333

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