Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c85efbf78923d95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.2 KB Created: 2020-08-22 02:40:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2a28333ec80582d10164c4d52581c9f4 SHA-1: d14733603306300631add1296569ca53d75f3abf SHA-256: 5c85efbf78923d958ab709695fb7cade06f75338a8669d525aae71aa62831dd9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt, likely using the 'free download' lure indicated by the document body and URL keywords. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=sca+barista+skills+intermediate+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.athleticsnorth.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408581/d5d1091c44991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.millerwebdesignservices.evansconstructionconsultingllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131860938/xexugikirav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://povikel.merleabranner.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856040/gupogufevasez_kasebip_gatag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ourhandmadelife.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637631/d679c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metosiwij.bostonroundtable.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636612/jozemazofasigag.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/1/0431/1102/2756/files/92101549049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6972/5085/files/unir_archivos_online_sin_limite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0228/1633/files/jigalisufutigulumeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1983/7346/files/71478310416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4256/2460/files/canada_food_guide_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0911/3253/files/cost_accounting_syllabus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2588/2518/files/41027715802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2425/9992/files/tumanogodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gejazopemovaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/3337/4369/files/basic_human_anatomy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6160/4505/files/microsoft_office_2019_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/59022585862.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
🗂 Part of campaign: evansconstructionconsultingllc.com 7 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006516.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6516 8972 bytes
SHA-256: 6034cc4b2db8fb272dd09e46714edea4ba7dc8da0507680f276cdb7bfb15b74d
font_01_sfnt_off000082f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82F4 5608 bytes
SHA-256: 676e72b25adced65a0cc259c12178c2a6d3011ee84cac8ff8be42bc646679f94
font_02_sfnt_off000095de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x95DE 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 1d67bf020281d7d4313ee2615b6809570761bba4f589761152f5537d15dbac8d