Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6896c4cc852c3040…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.2 KB Created: 2020-08-09 08:07:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f591228b450c448a8d2cf1cea48eddaf SHA-1: 671a079850517e2acc310dd73d9fc6c58e9b8c1b SHA-256: 6896c4cc852c3040537eb993560d8533e0b9013429bfd31c22d915fe37eea5f1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and heuristic rules. It contains numerous links, many of which point to a redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to the same redirector URL, suggesting an attempt to lead users to malicious content under the guise of a PDF download. The presence of a link farm and redirector indicates a phishing or scam attempt.

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=les+cestodes+adultes+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pijobidiz.betterhealthyouthyoga.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712093/kizujoxafawilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xetad.millomrufc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682883/de72a3280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jept.co.nz/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380627/rixeranojuxikaveko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.piommiami.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874316/79de620286e72.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.techecohome.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379231/wozaborufuziwozeji.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/1/0431/0876/1764/files/killeen_craigslist_org.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6737/4758/files/velegufomasorodeliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7276/6630/files/66647835060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4466/7553/files/avancemos_1_workbook_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3425/5258/files/63271502865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0978/5512/files/levelomuwamewotowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2254/1209/files/95269776486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9628/0993/files/buku_bakunin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xiwisabimetabif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6515/5489/files/mebufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3673/5650/files/bonethugs_n_harmony_thug_luv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7786/9476/files/overwatch_minecraft_skin.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000091c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x91C6 4992 bytes
SHA-256: 9a1148ee6ad1abf40dfd64e1fd8ae3afb41901fd2aca016141b1398b2673909e
font_01_sfnt_off0000a2df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA2DF 11408 bytes
SHA-256: 6003fb6048c3c4952548252db13f8669c4266008a7214b6f74e16af307c24ea4