Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 690fa7cb3062fc89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-19 02:59:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bea4ae5b9de1c4f3ddd65c0b165de68c SHA-1: 6c255f5b8fdf8928eed0bfe561d02226812abe6b SHA-256: 690fa7cb3062fc8928e863b9c7224362b1c664aa6617d9cbacc9b741408bb8f7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, including one to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure for an 'environmental management system template'. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to attract traffic, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier also 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=environmental+management+system+template+small+business In PDF document text
    • http://sejejeni.tokyomath.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814664/ziduwalin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nijase.buzzsalonnorthfield.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/b77520f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.segamatbikers.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874347/5612856.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/1/0430/4352/0665/files/88374968412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1044/0862/files/49682012160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8406/2622/files/83830957758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7079/1573/files/42154009911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9755/3064/files/fogaludubuxewufiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9679/9384/files/97220234329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2684/8661/files/30890273042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9305/6933/files/cub_cadet_owners_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9726/0192/files/medios_audiovisuales_concepto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4462/5822/files/80182324038.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_off00006ab2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AB2 5400 bytes
SHA-256: be0ebfa022259c85681424140d000cc53866faf19d1443f0191b852dc5ac3feb
font_01_sfnt_off00007cfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CFA 10252 bytes
SHA-256: 6ff73b87f1d511510070d62d27db628096efa779da8ca23f15fb6a6e4744d49a