Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b9a0c6f1623f3c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2020-08-05 15:36:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 218d0fb26ce41cac78904ace54a722d2 SHA-1: a30d8e5b08550b104c79e6e4b65c2b5b83aa94c6 SHA-256: 5b9a0c6f1623f3c40cc117fa8d22a86db0aad2fe455d184fe6b719b8b82b5276
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a malicious redirector, specifically designed to lure users to external sites. The document body and embedded links point to 'ttraff.com', a known malicious redirector, which likely serves as a phishing or malware distribution front. The presence of numerous links, some pointing to benign Shopify URLs and others to unknown or malicious redirectors, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to increase visibility.

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=caracteristicas+de+la+republica+aristocratica+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.cavershamholistics.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681951/8863419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bearcrack808.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438161/roguno_puteriremitasez_nototobasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.flamelilyarts.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813834/kumekafabufazi.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/1/0429/5789/7882/files/ark_kill_command.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4118/4165/files/sam_smith_too_good_at_goodbyes_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7469/0965/files/75047015646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2561/3468/files/faleroforag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0848/2710/files/bupowukokujabud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5501/4298/files/dobujen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5592/1822/files/70566621925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0924/4316/files/d_d_incapacitated.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9659/5870/files/53892609973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3792/5269/files/kokijamewarusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9753/9231/files/nuance_editor_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9843/9837/files/directv_dish_pointing.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c2ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2CE 5196 bytes
SHA-256: e47567af7b9778a149ccbcc749bf1195dbdf55db9b2542d146561054be949510
font_01_sfnt_off0000d477.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD477 11292 bytes
SHA-256: a739fa8c655b06705c6abcbc2c30b0757f1d6b477c3b4968d05eeb6ef712c213
font_02_sfnt_off0000f993.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF993 16840 bytes
SHA-256: 1fcaef87469fe8154f5264d5f5151768477887fc8d3aeea6d879f3801c4bd921