Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adebea2ca914099b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.4 KB Created: 2020-08-13 22:59:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 666fb8384f2d26e1abf007138df4e309 SHA-1: f112c324e3e7758d5233a9aef2c8bb3bd9b4470b SHA-256: adebea2ca914099bd68405c3c7b21c9408712a2e232dc6b626d1e19372dd9eff
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, which is disguised as an educational resource. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and references to 'improving vocabulary worksheets ks2'. The heuristic firings indicate the PDF is a malicious redirector and part of a link farm, likely designed to drive traffic to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=improving+vocabulary+worksheets+ks2 In PDF document text
    • http://files.geras.sk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739117/sadafagof-gewuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zikeje.ssvtac.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/dorususegowetujuruwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://povinuzek.getitfitteddotcarpet.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739267/wosolarixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.phuvu.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740165/0b2d4fff30ed.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/1/0432/7945/0272/files/75864492614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0896/6306/files/48185404978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1818/2041/files/barnes_and_noble_job_application.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5007/4269/files/kujunakaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3419/8684/files/joworogiwozekima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4909/0200/files/fangirl_by_rainbow_rowell.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0394/4853/files/german_accusative_verbs_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7931/9196/files/vinudafukarujibabokesunap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6019/8557/files/31313721574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gokibaleginasesomedusuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6713/8470/files/metabolic_disorders_of_amino_acids.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6858/8194/files/89353814260.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_off00006963.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6963 5756 bytes
SHA-256: 1afd2e950b91195808fd4a49feccd598103fe327c8fe64d9b139f2685f4be96d
font_01_sfnt_off00007cdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CDF 14480 bytes
SHA-256: 3a8b58b3abe3f223591bc92502e1edb230176b53f5121ba7a5f0f89c4a2c8fdc
font_02_sfnt_off0000aa34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA34 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3