Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a87e69ae045b2dd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-02 15:11:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a1a4883722c2e7a994f52b907060a8d9 SHA-1: fa2e89766ad757d8238e343f7bfca925dd72d97d SHA-256: a87e69ae045b2dd206938f61d6a0f30776f0a3a830aaef1810a447be2fb3906d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to an English-Spanish dictionary and the malicious URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to drive traffic to the redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=english+spanish+dictionary+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.onecreativechoice.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164117/zemema-tejat-vokoxo-gewosuxuwata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.abbywendy.co.nz/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452870/8148650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.omanroadshow.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398143/ed373fde.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fieldofdreamsrc.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969562/3579707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mhwclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383754/4346212106b1.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/1/0437/8004/6997/files/monumaxupaposajef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5509/5708/files/88588162596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7861/4168/files/mivukeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3393/6547/files/13522739095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9513/7187/files/31979118391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9534/1723/files/51920616841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7473/1685/files/91372269470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9592/4637/files/docker_run_interactive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0336/9878/files/zerotitasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9902/9655/files/46288355661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4949/1359/files/98117091139.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006832.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6832 5476 bytes
SHA-256: 2b2de4acde518dd87e1f628e8f26271852efaa3b02b43b184484012f4108322a
font_01_sfnt_off00007adb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7ADB 10076 bytes
SHA-256: b2639f2e14a31f46f53b277ffdacc299a8a157a5c8e9764dc265e9827c9bec84

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