Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a59ce348e5a95c8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.7 KB Created: 2020-07-31 11:44:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 55a280abcc32160adf1805f15eb46026 SHA-1: b6d563a9a0defcf99a720e56efc7d869c119907b SHA-256: a59ce348e5a95c8b2c9f6b70067227aa8d8480ddc5e206e1a581fc665811fe93
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, disguised as a search result for a musical piece. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links pointing to external PDF files, many hosted on Shopify. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, preventing a deeper analysis of its specific intent beyond the malicious redirection.

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=anna+magdalena+bach+minuet+in+g+major+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.healthyfitlife.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696030/xiduzaxazed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.louisianafur.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637570/2322747b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fruiggie.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740318/7750b9af62630a.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/1/0431/2875/0241/files/zaperizuganiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8615/1833/files/viwazolofuvipoxivafete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6163/9318/files/zegebotezovojaribe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6862/8892/files/52632582948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2894/5815/files/89940445249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0870/5187/files/91479749633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7962/2040/files/32488484434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1234/9334/files/zudinemenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7105/2707/files/wanugokawodaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6705/7063/files/nobele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6574/5314/files/42648893304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5156/4707/files/rufetazurobazax.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_off0000895a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x895A 7072 bytes
SHA-256: b32fab677de2449362016e7e4f35bc8354fb1aa34801fc03adad3cb38b361c60
font_01_sfnt_off0000a0c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0C5 5476 bytes
SHA-256: cf3318fb503c3004b3c06a9be9c5490b73d4e256820d2dc3419a29f886f32d4d
font_02_sfnt_off0000b331.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB331 10484 bytes
SHA-256: c936931a2d2baef71fd02c45d19e5e0a4cbcddd8d43495cf32eec7e00f009424