Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1b6ee7f91413d69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.3 KB Created: 2020-08-07 21:50:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4ae0ee54fa48387de8daa65fd67bb52f SHA-1: ac4fe0ff67f6d510759506cfccb356e351765f67 SHA-256: a1b6ee7f91413d69c3d08d27b756682e659a1574620a643fa02e125de4662eb3
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 PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, indicating it's the primary lure. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector and the link farm strategy strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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.cc/pify?keyword=class+10+physics+light+reflection+and+refraction+numericals+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.teamfitnessandfun.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815190/wafanitulono-tilimine-zupabo-sidarenes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.phsgolf.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408344/xaxuz-deriwu-babelivojati-wovezobulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hendersonbrothers.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775172/3896565.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/1/0436/6126/3001/files/subspace_bubble_minecraft.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5832/3865/files/sipumano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6341/9814/files/calculus_3_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9649/0655/files/jeppesen_pacific_airway_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0517/4179/files/criteria_for_judging_dance_contest.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8159/6066/files/rolan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0356/6486/files/miwikapel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/51851907441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2788/9304/files/xajovexukuxuveli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5238/3907/files/zisodorugukedunoxebuvitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5149/1233/files/48990763308.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000721e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x721E 5768 bytes
SHA-256: cbda5d7d5c41bb0127eec4ae874caa7aa4349a1aade175054594e890b91897e8
font_01_sfnt_off000085a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85A5 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 4c24637ce8f0e4483fdbec5bf5054e00f0b084e6f18afdf5565bd5362be42ada
font_02_sfnt_off0000aaca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAACA 16072 bytes
SHA-256: 4ce97752c8d1ed0b0302a1507788019c6b738cc3ee96ca273f61f92c287db7cd