Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8294d444ef06237…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-07-28 08:51:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 680cf265922188b08d6f4e82ddbc2a30 SHA-1: a223428d2c5251519f98d20892723d04515037e0 SHA-256: b8294d444ef062371fdcfe36e50a82dca5209817e88f71b22b35c242df9a5e02
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. This indicates the document is designed to lead the user to a malicious site. Additionally, a large number of external PDF links were found, suggesting a link farm tactic. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack. No scripts were extracted, but the combination of the redirector and link farm strongly suggests a phishing or scam attempt.

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.cc/pify?keyword=cursive+tracing+worksheets+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.visualisenewzealand.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969389/7966416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dirtdogs03kubo.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303286/juditop-bonex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.myapptv.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858592/5e0d3a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.yosemitewawonacharter.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695714/fakatavum.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/1/0430/9378/6791/files/59676242572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/92702877098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0989/9670/files/6447030194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2161/5772/files/vefogabolikaxetob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2199/9003/files/zatugokewipobejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5582/5567/files/pifudababatopojuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5497/1557/files/26688371305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3911/3895/files/nemizemasomivibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6012/6118/files/wuzorejajixudiwedebemave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8649/5400/files/zowevusurej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4830/4797/files/92101899772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9654/6216/files/30439714715.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_off00006ae9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AE9 5504 bytes
SHA-256: 6bfdec54ad6b6b4809bcf5943d7c2bec1d2bc2832d908aae278f4abde97702c7
font_01_sfnt_off00007db3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DB3 13420 bytes
SHA-256: c61719b813e9462cb96d11e8911759442614198c2cab3996ea9f64e83c5273fb