Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9204dbc87f1ce56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-09-20 14:55:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b104093097ea20567d65f92363264a23 SHA-1: cc2e92d96220d4331a4c66e0e9ba932e7ab5c362 SHA-256: b9204dbc87f1ce56e0fb33c6fcfe81d8b4e48d6bfdc40409b3e7977fcdfe5408
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK pointing to 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=mulan+google+docs+1998'. Another critical heuristic, PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, indicates a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or malware distribution. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body text, though partially obfuscated, contains the string 'Mulan google docs 1998', reinforcing the lure.

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.club/wix?keyword=mulan+google+docs+1998 In PDF document text
    • http://files.tiffanijenee.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813616/lasarez-zemixi-lufatezeva-vekagekura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perabew.carlosvillezfineart.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070719/zexevodazop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senolugow.design-art-trends.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/dofizovufewab_tunane_gufasudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jekive.idagirls.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775448/zufaropid.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/1/0434/9899/5878/files/11797435594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1699/4461/files/eylf_developmental_checklist_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://942e001d-80f5-4e80-a412-783f827bd854.filesusr.com/ugd/18ee90_a744a99c8e504fe3aa69baa7716ed160.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a9426039-3183-4d11-8770-d0ca471d7cdd.filesusr.com/ugd/bba345_584027e683d04a68962dc029a2592640.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://bcf610e3-dbd1-4bc4-9ef5-f6987e751f87.filesusr.com/ugd/917232_07803b7792b24f84b83a331f1022c2d6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9a6a916c-d768-41aa-8198-c2e04a0714e5.filesusr.com/ugd/ee6770_66a5861e6cd6469390a9e47a4761cc94.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1725/6605/files/arduino_bluetooth_module_hc_05.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3004/5084/files/winisatapibenesafunozirek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1036/6362/files/18799310949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9097/6673/files/81450234603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0484/5731/8554/files/cheapest_miata_supercharger_kit.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_off000061f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61F6 3720 bytes
SHA-256: f65b13e2922e7618a62dcbebfa53a1c398851790a9e5aef4ecd2e79a62a71b37
font_01_sfnt_off00006f28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F28 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 42056aeb68193a4e0c6e483b6f1148aa3f8592f2a3a5eb7c496fafa9e7e551d0
font_02_sfnt_off000081b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81B6 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 4353d40d825a7e49b48c4cad4f9d92789cb152064a0fcd389b43b53070f33514