Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b9a10e87b92b01b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-08-05 09:48:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4ca45c661c70481a84ffe5456249b764 SHA-1: cf5868c9f75b02ac3fe7041be5279476db620854 SHA-256: 9b9a10e87b92b01b1f1ee2fbdf3406d1e10ca56e25822e83fdca6768fae52761
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure related to payment acknowledgements and includes multiple embedded links. One critical heuristic indicates the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to payment acknowledgements and the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=acknowledgement+letter+for+payment+made+pdf', which is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site. The presence of numerous PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to obscure the final malicious destination.

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=acknowledgement+letter+for+payment+made+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.bestdealvacations.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681164/1159840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gracefulbellephotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606349/b9e436ad87753b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.derekrecks.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437018/puxusef-tigetalubej-retogidazoda.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/1/0435/1960/6936/files/81605451095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8789/6488/files/wimuzulazawadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4424/9499/files/pejiwolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4356/8278/files/depabebezifusaxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4355/2416/files/ipod_update_ipsw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0655/8359/files/83997265633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1137/5267/files/wumasazutofilakapifubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6224/8095/files/50805336061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0298/5621/files/daritazigefodowofira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4979/4213/files/85843687966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3806/4296/files/aa_resources._dll_104.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_off0000716a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x716A 2828 bytes
SHA-256: b7f317aa0f29cd34df008dc84d8f376d2685882a57a4a5cd0d86477d0adf885a
font_01_sfnt_off00007b65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B65 5544 bytes
SHA-256: 399588ee89a195e9e1586e269c816d89a6a09a353f4bf97844905d59499a3f2b
font_02_sfnt_off00008e55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E55 9684 bytes
SHA-256: 69247b541b5a86610be0e7cbba64f6cafd2a11d4d9f78b752e0483369bd10c8d