Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f9e7ec116555dbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.1 KB Created: 2020-08-18 19:28:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a0dab8a61f956bd6c5304c40b757c15d SHA-1: c5dcc5525712f2c00f58d8c57713d16026b2388f SHA-256: 8f9e7ec116555dbb1b5a0b7d7d4470ae47c6206eb4556be36ff9ba43f2751ce4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many of which are hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text as the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering attempt. The primary intent appears to be directing the user to the malicious 'ttraff.com' URL, which likely serves as a gateway for further malicious activity.

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=the+biggest+loser+diet+plan+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.bfdsandiego.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712093/015af4e1bc5b6b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dbassettroofing.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682990/seloful-jujevimovukivig-biwokosunar-litujevudogubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzaxena.lisasprettypups.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070674/3d2f427f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.capecodmedium.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453917/kiwazulepug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.modelrailways.tv/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681949/ebc8f6c483a0b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3347/5737/files/1632903174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9562/1796/files/48213604340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9341/7366/files/mitenofawopekoxuvalewar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3822/6085/files/usps_state_abreviations.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/949986333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/borutazaweluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9812/8036/files/fukobitur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9163/8934/files/96083941987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4250/3832/files/lunowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1048/8477/files/zuxipeterupamopek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8620/8406/files/current_approaches_and_teaching_methods.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/2138/0247/files/free_apron_sewing_pattern.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5654/5433/files/livro_boca_do_inferno_download.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007040.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7040 5180 bytes
SHA-256: 3d7221afe275dd76c78c1ee1ef258ec3f968a6b59ccb77a2f1a88a51487dab01
font_01_sfnt_off000081c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81C7 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 008e04b877c5d0595feadc343da0a38b226636fef7cafbfc80131a48bb3b8f55
font_02_sfnt_off0000a4eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA4EB 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34