Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2b401901352ce1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-08-14 05:11:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fda5336f5fa695e6d516c3e5d4e60e4d SHA-1: 9a733cabaa24945687638bf52eb5a8e8d8c7d992 SHA-256: b2b401901352ce1bb237e123f2499905a26d6cbba8244d6f2abd9b9d602669e8
202 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'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains. The document body also contains the malicious URL and a call-to-action phrase, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link, which likely leads to a malicious download or phishing page.

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=in+case+of+emergency+card+template In PDF document text
    • http://files.houseofsephira.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483371/luwipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.futureomro.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607522/romuparedosum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tosavaret.harvardtravellersclub.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381533/mewaxefagolix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stronghandsenterprises.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382387/kufun_rejakudixi_xixidup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.texascenterforregionalstudies.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856381/29afc.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/1/0432/3213/3278/files/narujofilefekegenumesikes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5733/9799/files/lumobovopijakuduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3301/0082/files/john_deere_410_backhoe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2537/4103/files/86972934997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9051/7917/files/97753201674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9806/2501/files/67438373648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9124/5733/files/14448279361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1464/2074/files/zelda_ocarina_of_time_game_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2520/3354/files/poworoliregabolovewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2026/3322/files/19165456633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8272/5029/files/xutiziduduxibolija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5699/6247/files/tofekugimizubaboj.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_off00007938.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7938 5512 bytes
SHA-256: 4bf4b6173c49dc32e322ccccb498a6a5c0758ae5c74af190b1adc2f250621b45
font_01_sfnt_off00008bd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BD9 10224 bytes
SHA-256: 79e89f7e859073fb17bcec6ac53515f989e4f7c0c1f0e5296060e9e177d55647