Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0eba6d1b48718e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.7 KB Created: 2020-08-03 22:14:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b6e19c7e8f91983a6e43bda1db29b045 SHA-1: d3d7214b8963cfca9c7ffd06583658eacd7db6af SHA-256: b0eba6d1b48718e593d3c4aa6c5526b4402729e0096a7f24816f00d584f2bc41
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to ttraff.com. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the same URL and text suggesting a lure for a 'solutions manual'. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, likely to improve SEO and evade detection. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=statistics%20for%20business%20and%20economics%208th%20edition%20newbold%20solutions%20manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.hideawayfarmar.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740573/pipevoponakigukukim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.westburybondreferendum.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454355/2977560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wildlifeworldwidephotographycompetition.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740343/nemumovekiso-rifoxavugas-dijewo-xapizivej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.toplevelpi.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682822/1676941.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/1/0432/5595/5624/files/xonitilarunegixowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8379/0491/files/maxiwoluxalolubijiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4077/5064/files/sirefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7077/4693/files/67409516067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7590/2363/files/10034960432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0152/6948/files/25800504503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4293/8784/files/6619116297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6670/4550/files/hand_warmer_terraria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1642/1529/files/fiwosoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7359/1703/files/95886215377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0197/0837/files/sadinibidarijutepeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6785/0390/files/wofuv.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_off0000aadc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAADC 5792 bytes
SHA-256: bbcf2c3ce90220539c7b0ac1f740eb5f3f4638491c78be983f5e128439d39f0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000be73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE73 16300 bytes
SHA-256: 92a7363f9f9e7fcb0d6a0849b556075d4a42a885ba3fcb97b805fddef17e4dd2