Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a59487010fb7fef5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.4 KB Created: 2020-08-12 01:14:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 82dceb8e122a9250729e7414349aa221 SHA-1: 28c47dd64b8c967c7b31789477ba14660b9a3e6f SHA-256: a59487010fb7fef544d5fc8848379d377367267dc363b6b9c486140340e7f435
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The document body, though corrupted, contains text suggesting a lure related to the 'Equality Act 2020 summary PDF'. The primary malicious IOC is the ttraff.com URL, which is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious payload or phishing page. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=equality+act+2020+summary+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.manssjoberg.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969727/mavesiwarot_dedojazejazij_jarifek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazig.jaredmathisen.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437462/gusoroki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bopivava.uniquecelebrationspartiesandgifts.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775350/rolonufegavopirabek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xebola.carvedtoadorn.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379578/zapejivivakaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2021/4681/files/70677678366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7048/7712/files/sql_injection_tutorial_for_beginners_step_by_step.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4797/5062/files/2112763386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1687/1336/files/26230775594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1104/6558/files/addictive_thinking.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3348/5727/files/wasizaxefadibapajobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8362/8697/files/vezikezuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3276/3816/files/19359301489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4291/3955/files/nedusebosojomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5282/5767/files/fleetwood_wilderness_travel_trailer_owners_manual.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_off00008532.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8532 5308 bytes
SHA-256: 5e4e7c39e4912c98bd8f9441bbe004f2d09ee6eee2f3e59a7b0bfe21c131f5c0
font_01_sfnt_off00009743.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9743 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 59c95b2697801dbe718ced358446d75ffcbd1fecf2f1a9bff70daa36de2e87f5
font_02_sfnt_off0000bb0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB0A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f