Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6c18a6b04a7470c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.8 KB Created: 2020-08-11 19:42:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4af6b95e675a9d33d618b8551af50467 SHA-1: 25bf314b52a88d7e5ce9cc58ce5af18f8b5d55dc SHA-256: b6c18a6b04a7470c733c531a47a00c96a8937b203b4b5e9f73bfa80ac973bec1
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a critical heuristic firing indicates a malicious redirector link to ttraff.com. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious infrastructure. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources, likely to improve search engine ranking or distribute further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=bruchrechnen+aufgaben+pdf+6.+klasse', reinforcing the redirector finding.

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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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=bruchrechnen+aufgaben+pdf+6.+klasse In PDF document text
    • http://files.rescuedfirewood.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969938/81d8f865180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cuesign.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775747/worawiwiwunufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.avallecorsa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776162/zorebuvisafid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.northheroschool.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437044/8008111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamumira.ndpharmabiotech.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163599/19be539e28ed7.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/1/0441/3738/2040/files/wivevexagowadakizujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2451/5229/files/74064800119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7325/5062/files/16977214322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9453/9429/files/nelagarewejisedefemudoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7005/4805/files/blue_book_of_grammar_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3606/5438/files/lifobifibigotimab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sigejorivuzogekos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7379/8306/files/torodemotobofovabufami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0266/5892/files/64636695806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6761/3087/files/pitobatinob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8942/0695/files/ruvugebedeporopubunos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3651/6250/files/nuvovadapudevamipitavam.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_off00008f7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F7A 5856 bytes
SHA-256: 3ee260f288b7b5c91ecd7e6d6edb9fd11019687adadb3ebb273614c9ada34bff
font_01_sfnt_off0000a362.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA362 11292 bytes
SHA-256: 0c179c374f74ba3bd091cef08aee699972f5f744f84137c2bedcf34bedb14845