Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af764ad290ff38ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-08-11 21:51:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 85ca6f187696963b91f437803dbbc34c SHA-1: 9cea7bb5eea9025b7100a0efaf57fdbc7dffe25f SHA-256: af764ad290ff38babebdfbbb08a67291ab331982c67ffb22ee5705b99b905e3a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded links that redirect to a known malicious domain, ttraff.com, under the guise of a software requirement specification for WhatsApp. This indicates a phishing or social engineering attack aimed at directing users to malicious infrastructure. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, which is characteristic of SEO link farm abuse to obscure the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

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/wb?keyword=software%20requirement%20specification%20for%20whatsapp%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.msbronson.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858044/6367112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.westcountryhearthattack.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776131/lumimiles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mowolazeg.sanantoniohardwoodfloors.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681352/4395862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ustars.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815437/5320563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nationalhellenicsociety.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814623/9913736.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/1/0430/4538/8437/files/86384948478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5494/0828/files/55992136997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8250/6647/files/22371201122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4298/7422/files/21567437226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4361/8965/files/med_surg_study_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3102/0198/files/81184114995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7738/6918/files/69029018054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7132/3808/files/63671795154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8393/2582/files/bulk_rename_utility.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9291/8947/files/sinow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7656/7711/files/zuzidumalewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4603/3818/files/77869433798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zigomotixiwututorevibalu.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006fae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FAE 5684 bytes
SHA-256: 91cb305b6207214288ae3adf35f964e9f913a9e6a5a7b3ccb57c3dcd7a11a102
font_01_sfnt_off000082e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82E8 9628 bytes
SHA-256: c6f720935f8b71dafcfc377334c21c04de63021141604ac9ccb84698355f28a1