Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7886ff05565bfb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.2 KB Created: 2020-08-22 09:19:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 21b2b4efe74a9f71b4f863895b74e9c8 SHA-1: f37ecd5f443fe5f2769430fe4e686c6923d448be SHA-256: a7886ff05565bfb6f242b859316fde46f51cfcb69cb5c7283ec8651175bba8b1
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a redirector to a known malicious domain, ttraff.com. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL and a lure related to a boiler manual. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into visiting a malicious website, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=baxi+combi+boiler+instant+105e+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.westsideindustrialpark.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696044/f6dc45448ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fionawade.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397996/tasawexoru-tuniguko-lidiraxoful-gaxuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.venablestheatre.ca/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164431/9126231.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/1/0432/8954/2809/files/caminito_tango_partitura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8788/8551/files/ensemble_empirical_mode_decomposition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kividerinogofigizunewif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2821/0073/files/fexejejadeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0797/5330/files/rixesazinekize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5797/9304/files/16021459026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5187/5494/files/tubatorotabogideminobug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8180/1629/files/8172011999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4228/2394/files/nonej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0629/1102/files/xolinizari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2898/7547/files/2804828667.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012a83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A83 18080 bytes
SHA-256: 36e6277a0723b6c4cd09c448633d1b6c9c3b00922417a4539959ac9e9ee12777
font_01_sfnt_off0001646d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1646D 5404 bytes
SHA-256: 614f92b9a36e623e044bf0b5b4daf325cad7e70e4b12c2bb9dc9cc63850c2cce
font_02_sfnt_off000176b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x176B9 12880 bytes
SHA-256: 2abbda26cc7261cdeb208c03c4208f7c98288a9b0573a75150eab5a4febfa57a
font_03_sfnt_off0001a132.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A132 16876 bytes
SHA-256: a987449a195854f2da8fc9be4bfa523ba37347d04953fab90dd70ddb79372158
font_04_sfnt_off0001b86f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B86F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3