Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c26d3afb9de7b5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.7 KB Created: 2020-08-14 21:39:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 63a2590b05f179e8cafc70fb1f40ad6b SHA-1: d2b2eb04927d8e634d7efbc3a53b088577c2f349 SHA-256: 8c26d3afb9de7b5c7438e952b54caf39c1e5b661dd1eec58c0e4dbeebca41745
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=experience%20letter%20for%20civil%20engineer%20pdf'. Another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, with the first URL pointing to 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9069/6597/files/fallout_1_download.pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=experience%20letter%20for%20civil%20engineer%20pdf', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking malicious links.

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/wb?keyword=experience%20letter%20for%20civil%20engineer%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://velakad.supportingpresence.com.au/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695569/fumarodaxosumal-jugezanujig-zoberu-rulapagezep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fesiki.worksummercamp.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969551/mivubopimigagomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mydadnmom.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606011/topatojule-sutuniti-wodipatakij-gojuriretatum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.samaritancreations.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381464/380579298.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/1/0437/9069/6597/files/fallout_1_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9160/7190/files/83685378344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8000/6294/files/27493739425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/69440205977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8627/4967/files/nofotojesozawawusamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3186/3202/files/bexegakilisasexotew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5669/3397/files/fekanevijuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7045/5957/files/vidabatuzateburenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6604/1244/files/39405472599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5007/2224/files/xitevakumalogomozuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6645/6224/files/77796875538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5357/2515/files/muwajotisoselasud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1654/2632/files/78642700619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0100/4707/files/bronze_horseman.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
🗂 Part of campaign: supportingpresence.com.au 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000af6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF6C 2828 bytes
SHA-256: 85b692c1c636aed9ab1240d2a7361179fdd6c0849396a06064984f922e967b4f
font_01_sfnt_off0000b966.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB966 5020 bytes
SHA-256: 793bee599a47ac81ee5c57cf16bfd8aff30c96d05ec229b37462e4a93c385bcb
font_02_sfnt_off0000ca92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA92 10060 bytes
SHA-256: 8feb974054b4c2264e67b04992c2a05600fb4c5cf6e681c84e2f0f4798373c34