Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b053a43a389d1dc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.4 KB Created: 2020-08-14 01:16:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6a489310d55ff77ce4587d92e87726a6 SHA-1: 61938b3e5ebdfffea965f90d3b910d244424737d SHA-256: b053a43a389d1dc2c1aedfa29d5de76e2d761d144189e52419049fb81a9ee337
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'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirect URL, suggesting the primary intent is to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. 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.com/pify?keyword=psoriasiform+dermatitis+differential+diagnosis In PDF document text
    • http://files.hedcut.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738531/1194355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.elopechattanooga.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776821/zoname.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kitchen-519.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775471/a79112aaf3815ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapuxe.creaturecomfortstm.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379485/kelukatim.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/1/0447/9392/1685/files/arcpy_spatial_join.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6437/8022/files/32099817196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9134/5064/files/18552842134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7680/3990/files/mla_format_citing_two_authors_in_text.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8808/5143/files/705958337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0003/7527/files/alcoholismo_y_drogadiccion_en_mexico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9140/9561/files/intermediate_financial_management.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/30198473276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6535/2093/files/99788281566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0178/1156/files/36814938339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mevadijuxirefasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4923/8179/files/biological_control_of_pest_and_diseases.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_off000098a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98A9 5228 bytes
SHA-256: f27f5852ac2c68476cfc2b4ceaea0f79c7a7441cd9943d36923711ada62ac113
font_01_sfnt_off0000aa58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA58 12520 bytes
SHA-256: 95bec6358d7c475d6f1d0ebb43df33c583c4a9bc89d7e63aa65bd52c849f1c04

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