Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86b4937cea33ac8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.9 KB Created: 2020-08-07 08:11:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bddd4c474273b156e6cb0f7157871dfb SHA-1: 5188fc436b710c31ac21915768829027c3fc4957 SHA-256: 86b4937cea33ac8a4e37c175fa372cebd8dbf0e4245b2c5aba372ac01cc9e44c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links designed to appear as legitimate academic or technical documents, but they lead to a redirector service (ttraff.com). This service is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination, which could be a phishing page or a malware download. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a redirector link confirms a malicious intent to direct users to potentially harmful content.

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=chemistry+of+polycyclic+aromatic+hydrocarbons+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.eldaag2019.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682627/4689018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mindbodyspirit-yoga.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775220/wademuvusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.riveterlaw.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636988/77a5768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spanish-charts.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856706/sagosidukew_jojalogopit_bolat.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/1/0427/5588/3175/files/risewazumisow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8305/2696/files/tutorials_point_computer_networks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/91300886864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5896/1315/files/jeriguzixivinalosuxudel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0006/9285/files/gowezanapelarosigobejiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5117/9416/files/zodamasog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1266/8066/files/10578232265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2521/1296/files/voa_e5_8d_ab_e8_a7_86.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9567/8359/files/ruby_json_pretty_print.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/duliwoledemovaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6982/4414/files/rijofig.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a9ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA9FF 5540 bytes
SHA-256: e148594e740ec35cd55823991ad9325bef1cbdbb8b8769c7a92cbdec65c021b6
font_01_sfnt_off0000bca9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCA9 12672 bytes
SHA-256: 20d2d38aa7d797b294a677e7cfbfc61d9dc12a8ee07be1d604acdbba20b07e50

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