Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98205b59b36859d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-01 06:30:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3ea88f658c4307bbaad051cbb50a20d3 SHA-1: fa68756bdcdd81179c489bc8398d2c9f5d873841 SHA-256: 98205b59b36859d5aafd2f4c933180bea69b233225ee87b844ec229764a2f8d0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at https://ttraff.com/pify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and a large number of other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or redirection tactic. The primary intent appears to be directing the user to malicious content via the ttraff.com domain.

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=minecraft+pat+and+jen+hunger+games In PDF document text
    • http://files.breedingforthefuture.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681566/sutavumuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.christiancoelho.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411281/gubowabiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sbrmga.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695707/goxutaxuxamamatub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rebelrustictexas.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696598/8726363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oakdaleediting.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407047/f8895def662f1.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/1/0433/2378/5370/files/lojenafosebujejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6214/0840/files/59192989474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5664/3739/files/78407527637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1424/9886/files/13251204837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7497/7945/files/defewuzovizala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6521/3079/files/mekut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6635/0998/files/nosojulixupusipas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0777/8717/files/ponunanebuzogabaledod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5809/4495/files/gozawiwajoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8687/9651/files/4199721149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1269/9798/files/76899804088.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_off000067e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67E7 5616 bytes
SHA-256: 27ca03613a5c878391ebf6b54e452bdcef40949fb9511efc60a8c9d47c46622f
font_01_sfnt_off00007aeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AEB 10424 bytes
SHA-256: f69c2ad9f073091a39fcc69e7280d91e7281c869ab550e9af850b130c675bd8d

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