Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94d8d6845ab1812c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.7 KB Created: 2020-07-31 02:39:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 554bf587c30f70f9d09226d07fe1f7a5 SHA-1: 369780e6e532bcfb84fe5c9211f2941040686bf7 SHA-256: 94d8d6845ab1812c4f50013cbc858be9d627aa1694af91ccb54a7d947f24a799
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 a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous links pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO poisoning or to host further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to legal declarations, suggesting a lure to disguise malicious intent. The primary attack vector appears to be directing users to a malicious URL that likely hosts a phishing page or initiates a malware download.

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=dichiarazione+sostitutiva+atto+di+notoriet%25C3%25A0+eredi+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.singlesretreat.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381414/tawes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nevadadiscoveryride.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381540/dorojede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.reganwalkerauthor.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814644/dobodef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.awp-wa.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398095/78f9bf8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.luciebaker.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739860/kuletibuxedukas-baguzibujat-bemukezenulo-sobawu.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/1/0428/6945/7063/files/42234176266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6038/7227/files/31561770268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4904/9499/files/88411962823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3767/7989/files/66912836600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5625/1555/files/10222982085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2995/4721/files/tezawibuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7605/0330/files/tabaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4888/5662/files/jejabuwawosasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3794/1160/files/wofujawusixafajeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3027/3448/files/6743598944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1308/7142/files/rakojobak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1910/7480/files/5559474194.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_off0000a8d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA8D8 5436 bytes
SHA-256: 59a93280c67561df2ca7a0c1ec82722fcbf7ef8a63ca6e630bc5e45150260825
font_01_sfnt_off0000bad4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAD4 10920 bytes
SHA-256: ba721eab6f6eea1b045206bb1c6411cd96b7dda11ab78662e625d2ec2075f43a