Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89dbba9a37817734…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-08-17 08:44:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d8bcd449555c1f659c7357cca80a5dbf SHA-1: 65c35e771bf398a040175750dfcd2f363966a287 SHA-256: 89dbba9a37817734e8a7577405064ddffc2e711984049c0a6eae958f8afd2b79
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with 22 identified as part of a link farm. One critical heuristic indicates these links point to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.cc'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to external malicious 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.cc/pify?keyword=like+dislike+food+worksheet In PDF document text
    • http://rasene.cancersurvivalwhatsnext.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740025/219d6e4877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kcrme.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969435/dikekagurejiw.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/1/0433/5858/4986/files/murray_ky_zip_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3564/8409/files/voniluvogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0854/0315/files/best_gba_emulator_for_android_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7897/4616/files/i_walked_across_an_empty_land.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3858/8584/files/personal_pronouns_and_possessive_adjectives_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1397/1861/files/tratamiento_psicologico_anorexia_nerviosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8077/7882/files/53419184891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9714/6019/files/jetadefeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2897/1681/files/5615399518.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_off00005ce3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CE3 4884 bytes
SHA-256: ea4712126a6ecf4d33743b3becaedbe47563dd502fcdf977719e2fd36f0c4031
font_01_sfnt_off00006d87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D87 10364 bytes
SHA-256: b2b488f7242d98190672b1939e98807b0008aa8ca4c9dee2630e1624ae0a077a

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