Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98880a2543ba287a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.2 KB Created: 2020-08-10 00:21:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5835c28d6311198286ecb6fd6df823df SHA-1: 790bc8398335b807dc190491d8372894c98b770d SHA-256: 98880a2543ba287a929a1d93aa086271a11f8edf85ca78857a4a537e776d5ab6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources, suggesting a link farm or redirector strategy. The primary URL, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=acquisitions+incorporated+pdf+free+download', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other Shopify links, reinforcing the lure of a free download. The presence of numerous links and the malicious redirector indicate an attempt to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=acquisitions+incorporated+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://genegekut.sjcoescience.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874431/safiw-zunaneg-kamoxatonam-kijaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.themailoutpost.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969065/loxidutuzuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nunev.lashthetics.shop/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710621/6883505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nerinxhallspiritshop.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814432/3905685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gumaro.detailap.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164312/1423078.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/1/0431/2514/5760/files/garotakumuzolij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2256/5032/files/carl_jung_red_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7753/3856/files/makalah_patent_ductus_arteriosus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4598/5192/files/rounding_to_two_decimal_places.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8131/1132/files/nirajaditomevidexisofufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0941/6095/files/moscow_metro_map_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6934/8763/files/99999806950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1483/8679/files/87266425140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2115/3957/files/segment_addition_postulate_activity.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0034/6270/files/adobe_acrobat_reader_word_to.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7164/2527/files/auxiliary_verb_meaning_in_tamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3640/8982/files/kulokasoronawoxejexuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2440/8991/files/lopesupopuwodor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5144/9496/files/fuxuxibuwa.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_off00004d2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D2B 5356 bytes
SHA-256: a8801d26c86d2c0115ec6ec181d4a07bea129a60a8f18c124f044982d6786e2a
font_01_sfnt_off00005f82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F82 10536 bytes
SHA-256: a65bb299c5029c4b5d627953d2fb0b931125a190f79185e22e367388d80dc817