Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b88ebb1b338f6c7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-06 01:39:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 87a000f96c8edf3ff60d8d513693c5f5 SHA-1: 660a2a51869d392bed0833989817d0b1a0f41606 SHA-256: b88ebb1b338f6c7bd29d2914da25f8c3383fbe7e75df7085df64d558e57b4dfc
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting PDF files, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious infrastructure at ttraff.com. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning technique used to distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggers the redirect, indicating the primary intent is to lead the user to a malicious site under the guise of providing a textbook.

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=vce+further+maths+textbook+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.beholdvisiodivina.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871814/ridavugemega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.raphastar.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776168/7836318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theallstarsgroup.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776037/puxabebotuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.coachellavalleyprenatalclass.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398097/gosodolajev_fimesadepirasax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wischandjackson.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776589/fazafoligasofur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5819/1768/files/86489213851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8634/7430/files/ayatul_kursi_shia_full.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1641/9488/files/75356255828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8052/4710/files/47831741442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7356/7894/files/bwv_998_fugue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6503/1321/files/robibebogaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4568/2332/files/23404741592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7554/1919/files/minerals_identification_lab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2666/9987/files/59553923871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0838/5439/files/9932986118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5072/9621/files/pogasegopap.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005b50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B50 5328 bytes
SHA-256: fada8ccdf606b367ad6e5ed5d1f53300a1410da906a49dac8c0b6b44dd8904d0
font_01_sfnt_off00006d60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D60 9896 bytes
SHA-256: 288c6f021b8cc7c076a55bf1fd43302e8240d678487f18404d11acf32e32cf8b
font_02_sfnt_off00008f3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F3A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f