Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 787a8e517c8dcbf2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.9 KB Created: 2020-07-29 07:41:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 19bea381ed423ea1ace70b472f563598 SHA-1: 6588d266a4c159db524d00b18c4d683769aabf04 SHA-256: 787a8e517c8dcbf29004a45e15fa1a01a1bdc74be27e32f4fac616cf884ab91b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to reference a financial report, likely serving as a lure. The embedded links are designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content, and the ML classifier strongly supports a 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=coca+cola+amatil+financial+report+2015 In PDF document text
    • http://files.trnwestchester.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776575/movenolonusemi-safazepe-toguju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eceaministries.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739719/4f2da7523ee06.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tilcc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738620/revexarebowiluzexo.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/1/0430/6255/8874/files/javive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9261/5073/files/14072179057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0091/2278/files/dijat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4654/1211/files/62282359975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7483/7925/files/54137850852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1967/2472/files/nazawulolizutinosurikifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4429/6088/files/1477841173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2348/3548/files/kubejebejosexijusirid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2894/5815/files/natala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4869/0076/files/wopugizujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0151/2090/files/jizokoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7365/9292/files/3143804041.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_off000075b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75B5 5244 bytes
SHA-256: 6e90419fe46452340014c6418d76bfd81c6f5d4391d012d1c6b328d54078b7b3
font_01_sfnt_off00008771.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8771 14936 bytes
SHA-256: 18744cf36049bfe5ae9ef80d3a82f1a4c2f21119bfb710480f56c22328f5809b