Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e76aa29eaf1ffa1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-07-29 22:56:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 44c960024b387e84f21d6c2428597384 SHA-1: ee6741020ce37d9c15cb627e2299ecafbc05b800 SHA-256: 9e76aa29eaf1ffa17f4503d0275d1b8aeea50feed808a2193d9b5295b85e5aae
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating it is a malicious redirector and part of a link farm. The embedded URL points to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely used to funnel victims to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to business plans.

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=business+plan+samples+for+food+processing+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.katshelter.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969474/2b4e9aa64ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.art-of-jen.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739651/nopexesufudukurup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mrsrossresourceroom.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606652/4674703.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/1/0430/0396/9689/files/27377897735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2878/3002/files/lutotagix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7286/3904/files/83322008408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1769/7437/files/ritob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/befuxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3873/5512/files/50832651819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6511/4775/files/gumodapase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7058/6022/files/73415847342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9586/8067/files/kedaruxegugabutaroliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tujekozovazufurujujazer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5554/5497/files/8177483233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3900/6618/files/worumazebemodami.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_off000070ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70FF 5328 bytes
SHA-256: 6e0cdfdeb1abfbc4f257141e76e2a0542c2f60cadd16625abf3954dcf5b7b154
font_01_sfnt_off000082f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82F5 10084 bytes
SHA-256: 33f6b677c05f69d6a0bb9f54954f32b8375a0d317c4ccf8187c9c38d7ad48d08