Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82acc3144b53fe97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.7 KB Created: 2020-08-10 13:05:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 99ab42beabab473be5548633e17591a7 SHA-1: 602c0b3969beda3adea380060de006cfd9e0dc17 SHA-256: 82acc3144b53fe9762a01359ebea906017f5e87bdaf5fbe0a030d930d23f2e46
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified as 'ttraff.com'. The document's content, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure for an 'argument essay graphic organizer PDF'. The presence of multiple external PDF links and a critical redirector link firing strongly suggests 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=argument+essay+graphic+organizer+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.cletushull.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438098/d89179caf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.deltasierracds.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382141/zasibevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thebearstfriendsfurevershow.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380871/91c2b5b559.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/1/0429/6228/8793/files/77423984786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3258/4087/files/94013704170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7386/2808/files/52537487387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2698/7680/files/84966555417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2873/3352/files/10965278772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1887/8117/files/tixurefigowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3609/0267/files/musesilided.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6169/8969/files/mowul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6636/8935/files/30805866492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1434/9215/files/65008582202.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b227.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB227 5680 bytes
SHA-256: cdf05fe35e31cd4a0a84d52bc345acbfc5bab7690bea07aa4e57742a8916d990
font_01_sfnt_off0000c55c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC55C 10084 bytes
SHA-256: 4df3297ac7863b11a66a1eebf65cd6ad3d241040ecebd0a6dcdad6965a4a9a34
font_02_sfnt_off0000e826.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE826 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 532315dfdc59b350d447ad91845dd8cc72a836e684f536ab9a4305dc5b53fb8e

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