Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6bb56f88b4a0824…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-03 03:43:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0572d0456402bd00cfe1e75bd79659e0 SHA-1: 09efcb63daeebff1ffa00ea13acca9a5a1b66fb3 SHA-256: b6bb56f88b4a0824f6c53c7fa0668b0879af047ee145ead048a37cbe2a69108f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm designed to manipulate SEO and redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK firing indicates a direct link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic confirms the presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting a broad distribution strategy. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of the document. The embedded URL in the document body, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=no+man%2527+s+sky+residual+goop, is a primary indicator of malicious redirection.

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=no+man%2527+s+sky+residual+goop In PDF document text
    • http://files.salonrhapsody.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381540/tigumevoxexutoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.painting.zone/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815045/4932041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisal.elisafriedlander.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409909/4820468.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/1/0428/9724/4316/files/xazojurasatod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7495/3120/files/drag_me_to_hell_ending.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7141/5196/files/33909748245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3451/6376/files/biborudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/23281911610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1690/4104/files/59106667719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8298/7158/files/brother_hl-_l6200dw_driver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2327/7973/files/sakopiwomafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0840/1316/files/la_salette_message.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3912/9751/files/6563917505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8716/7645/files/65868815065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5381/7762/files/lerol.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_off00005dfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DFA 5448 bytes
SHA-256: 7283b882f218fd987c8ab64273ce8352b120f835135a518dbddcfef4fe5cad4c
font_01_sfnt_off00007084.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7084 10024 bytes
SHA-256: ed54e6d7ca0bd7572382b6bc868cf879311166f2ce57d7bd5bc8cb3a41ae8e3c