Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d9fef589ed059fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.4 KB Created: 2020-08-06 07:06:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 074f3d22594fcb6390070add582f3fbb SHA-1: 45feff26191695e7d607dd9b6d026739a54ca541 SHA-256: 6d9fef589ed059fcf081603b60cba11653074c668b071f20fd82d510e3d81b65
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. The document body and embedded links suggest a lure to download a PDF, likely leading to a phishing or malware distribution site. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, supporting the attack pattern.

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=most+important+characteristics+of+an+entrepreneur+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.helensofaer.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874385/2524771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.riverroofingbend.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969633/5510357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fetota.thelittlebull.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775350/c8004f4380f87.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thenecessarian.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453247/xixabuxos_nipuwuwewi_sufedetafebavu_bujipesefuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feforu.minnesota42.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482853/4014584.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/1/0431/1829/7245/files/94510482411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1692/0996/files/33591880612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4629/6982/files/75236807617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3308/4575/files/32802104380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6657/2452/files/62096787169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5244/9444/files/ditiximozodidapakop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4027/6642/files/managerial_accounting_hilton_10th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5744/6038/files/3d_max_tutorial_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8158/1209/files/lamedebole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8617/5651/files/65858251300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2960/0155/files/fanuc_robot_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7660/7390/files/pajofaxasimofalogivosamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0574/5051/files/1477842989.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_off000091de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x91DE 5368 bytes
SHA-256: f6f36502bb380b0d033c5444b5d0c129b0041d06145218c538c7407cc07d3aa6
font_01_sfnt_off0000a400.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA400 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 00154e95a5a3c6668840b4b2e548938287f2cecff61aa44457ddfa5242e49370