Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af326a16ef8fb605…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-08-04 07:24:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3c6d9ed85e7208315d5f1d8679e8b4a3 SHA-1: b3f5bcaf94c4efbf0af0638a84dedcc15b2a37f8 SHA-256: af326a16ef8fb605d049bad19876ce8ee6aab19d49c331347fc6d1f3c935a8b1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body also contains this URL, along with numerous other PDF links hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the true malicious destination. The primary intent appears to be redirecting the user to the malicious 'ttraff.com' URL, likely to deliver a subsequent payload or initiate a phishing attempt.

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=alucinaciones+y+delirios+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.profiledesigntooling.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681479/5027124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.trainkc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739369/firetixikadufulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.columbiadentcenter.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969910/jubegonakajij-desagomabof-sateno-pikilolot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.garypattersonarchitects.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303068/2571723.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/1/0429/0550/1852/files/59708352800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4598/5192/files/65185265627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kenetawibonilolususede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6255/0940/files/barrenador_del_aguacate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4224/1688/files/35738025866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7991/5934/files/xosidiwuxiwelowof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6858/8194/files/nickelback_all_the_right_reasons_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0098/7801/files/75922103862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8749/5321/files/goletadubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9569/5266/files/xiruwapejobi.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
    • https://medlineplus.gov/spanish/psychoticdisorders.htmlIn 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_off00007026.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7026 5040 bytes
SHA-256: 602ed18134d78915515ca1ab28c2a4d568b184aa6ecba4dc3ad521f15483a764
font_01_sfnt_off0000814f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x814F 10536 bytes
SHA-256: f6dd1b6f7082cb3bfdc3507badb769966412ed969c6c416db8ae04ef462fdcc8
font_02_sfnt_off0000a345.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA345 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f