Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afb94ed3024311ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.1 KB Created: 2020-08-08 21:32:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8cd4a87584977c4f5d74e88e119d60a0 SHA-1: e19f964132adb7d6c39e20f0e7cadb54849ccce0 SHA-256: afb94ed3024311ed30316ee895e1ebba1b16cc1177395b7aa021a8c02b35b619
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=alternative+energy+books+pdf', is designed to lure users into clicking it under the guise of finding 'alternative energy books'. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links pointing to external PDF files, many hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious intent appears to be directing users to the ttraff.cc redirector.

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=alternative+energy+books+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.timetravelersoforegon.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482823/pepafo-setirebovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rustyforkranch.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302876/6441332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hayleywalkerart.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874642/mepod-zikilexuja-dubezexisoxax-jitejoguwegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nocontractppc.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637316/zasanifo.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/1/0428/7404/4579/files/29770116891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5223/5938/files/waruwewurugobol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8110/5562/files/equivalent_expressions_worksheet_7th_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3067/4597/files/dorokifadejiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9699/0105/files/57548471107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1104/6558/files/addictive_thinking.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3495/9259/files/bethesda_clasificacion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2117/2897/files/dejutizujazinuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0802/3966/files/samavoxalola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7215/1959/files/9950235258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4921/2311/files/99871720686.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005a40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A40 5352 bytes
SHA-256: 7610ff4905e71719dd48e45c4df9bea837695ce5f0cc8e745cd083cc06faddbe
font_01_sfnt_off00006c7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C7A 2116 bytes
SHA-256: 49f1c345582212729590e0456707ca92d3838aef8cba26fbcaa28f8c5b0a0640
font_02_sfnt_off00007645.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7645 14964 bytes
SHA-256: e9d77023e1a26246c1a410d509b44e0adb0cba8331655e6faa671c42c8b9d2b8
font_03_sfnt_off0000a4f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA4F0 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e