Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b55b3f359aa792fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 21:03:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 981771f6288e9a4b0bbd5582b2291631 SHA-1: 90d70da623c2e4fcce8c6d4f3361de49f949d8d0 SHA-256: b55b3f359aa792fbb85c8889dd288a078f445adcfcc0d192baee9690ce0dc66c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=asteroseismology+aerts+pdf, which is likely used to obscure the final destination of the attack. The document body contains obfuscated text and numerous links, many of which point to benign Shopify domains, but also several to unknown domains that could host further malicious content.

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=asteroseismology+aerts+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.valleycrafthavenandsupplies.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380485/17466698037507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegemelov.veohtu.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606201/fixasanawo_loxiluzo_nekiralerowe_kasadixonuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.paulashleyfowlerphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775027/8706118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tejox.umweltschutzverein.de/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739204/5983810.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/1/0431/2776/7206/files/advanced_spatial_analysis_the_casa_book_of_gis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1550/4029/files/9781050597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8180/1629/files/78156104778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7140/5222/files/mujolanedagix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3241/1298/files/50275671689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8004/8037/files/correlative_conjunctions_worksheets_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/3286/6979/files/il_compagno_cesare_pavese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7928/5401/files/rajudoxiget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7145/4883/files/authoritarianism_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0963/8553/files/tables_of_houses_astrology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3197/0471/files/249293217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8136/6693/files/pifavipurezibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1557/5464/files/kefetuxijidukupiga.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_off00008682.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8682 5452 bytes
SHA-256: 5ed93ef3d2b85850abbef54a0a110f8ff6ae67e5b4f3ebe254da4775f58ff13f
font_01_sfnt_off00009900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9900 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 65cbcca696770b0e114fbf10561fd4a622a0d21000e70654631a84ad00a2e65b