Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85d3fe31381d89b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-08-21 21:46:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 52545bd188cd71a1180820c7f0b27c59 SHA-1: e37baf74e80edb3e04b33ee559986eb1951e1670 SHA-256: 85d3fe31381d89b874f1716f51ce5fa2c70b4ad23646db00d3d5508b45511490
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. It also exhibits a PDF SEO link farm behavior, with numerous links pointing to external PDFs, many of which are hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and a seemingly benign error message, likely intended as a lure. The ML classifier strongly supports the 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=aws+cli+the+authorization+header+is+malformed In PDF document text
    • http://waraj.jessicamilne.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776257/2361235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sportbowl.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739986/4037984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nwlj.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380848/sakojaxufekitawitige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.corefitathletics.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070291/pibapiwel_mimofavakipux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejedu.martinisimagedesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740019/8be2b2.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/1/0434/3840/7832/files/ascaris_lumbricoides_ciclo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/6434/0130/files/animals_reading_esl_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5679/9647/files/ati_targeted_medical_surgical_2016_cardiovascular_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/1511/0565/files/outlook_2013_manual_archive_settings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7629/5592/files/61274308229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3821/0205/files/gejanojejule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3159/3113/files/xawinipefakuxepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1095/6196/files/critical_and_descriptive_goals_in_discourse_analysis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7872/8345/files/gatimeromepevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2661/2378/files/equipment_of_arnis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5833/0786/files/thick_leather_farming.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0458/5432/6937/files/83512113120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5539/0630/files/sasiwet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0015/8632/files/68892619818.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_off00006403.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6403 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 3da9e839d7e1f0516e967fa7cfda271ff0747eed0ee484799a68e80eb0793883
font_01_sfnt_off00007638.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7638 13356 bytes
SHA-256: 69c603aecde99bd5adb9f4f3b061a6cfcd1b28229a3bfe233c1612b8463a7c93