Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92ba0c58fae7ceb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 00:43:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b069eb62eaed3dbea73d34ea076899be SHA-1: c908e7a67b2ddc46cf52252615e3a49ef59b76ef SHA-256: 92ba0c58fae7ceb0ad31b5dfeffe66729d9626587b387b94c8b59abb91f3f775
202 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 PDF link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL pointing to 'ttraff.com', which is flagged as malicious. The presence of a PDF link farm further suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The overall pattern indicates a social engineering lure to drive traffic to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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+flash+barry+allen+comics In PDF document text
    • http://files.mountainmattressaz.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776275/besunigutixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jodaw.joannegervais.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813478/2217103.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/1/0436/4858/1782/files/febumejadamupomerekevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6710/4668/files/fobalusemugiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6926/8383/files/solidworks_sheet_metal_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/90685913575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7110/1338/files/44774355235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/lujuxekafanafategiwozego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5123/7022/files/63125173936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1497/8718/files/53805924602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3486/9921/files/miredolanabaxufege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0776/9750/files/97290954505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5156/5724/files/72869962102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7809/0901/files/7940986927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5743/8101/files/functional_programming_patterns_in_scala_and_clojure.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e50a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE50A 5312 bytes
SHA-256: 647825c72d0342bc2dca85792fdd315208c2344ed5c94a4744169b5de4fa90fe
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F0 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 4596eb6c758aac156aa4a8c0cc3813f0e80e823cef9cca2ee19249f1e55e7888