Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f02a76f5b1bb177…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 16:32:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a860f9f01a5af41b2cc6ac2cfc05b8f6 SHA-1: c07a1bad781d3d51a3b9bbe7b525556a0e121e28 SHA-256: 8f02a76f5b1bb177e39ec7f0998d3cc500aaf33738b7f75adb45926b76a31278
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This URL is presented in the document body, disguised as a link to free software presets. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=lightroom+mobile+premium+presets+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.callawaycampaign.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775784/nilamudari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobuputu.prohuntersights.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775732/tejizupiva.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/84005007378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8976/5276/files/23559587776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4029/8392/files/hungarian_dances_4_hands.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4207/7852/files/subnautica_table_coral_sample.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3774/4534/files/kinetic_theory_properties_of_fluids_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3486/8897/files/6987170841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8180/1629/files/84815478278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4277/2891/files/cumulative_frequency_histogram_and_polygon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0167/5939/files/67536313849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1863/3894/files/46889185486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/bobidaxida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6249/3345/files/nowegujakobovemujefagef.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_off00006cf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CF9 5184 bytes
SHA-256: 7d0aa3dfa8f084c54b8875401086ccbf6fac773c39e63156099575f8838304b3
font_01_sfnt_off00007e86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E86 10000 bytes
SHA-256: e26414ec3816ae6c80f3a2f520d8a7a845636b780fc3fb01ee0cb12226b73ea6

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