Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c08526a449927436…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-04 01:19:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9c15411083ddd5aebcf2568e0788a3b0 SHA-1: 59a64fa3838492192d26618abd0bbd15fa242118 SHA-256: c08526a449927436866f3dfdef26398cbf1f95cb23bd5a85ed98fa8cd19c8fea
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com', which is flagged as malicious. The document body and embedded links suggest a lure to download a 'free biology textbook', but the primary link leads to a known malicious redirector. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, indicating a link farm for SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious redirectors and the SEO link farm pattern strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=grade+10+biology+textbook+pdf+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.handbendi.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437680/togufinuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.baanphitaktaweep.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437157/xetasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.chemtutorsg.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398507/wosokagar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidip.itslikemusictomymouth.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739678/xalabozip-pudenupufadewe-juvodinalaxud.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/1/0433/3810/5000/files/max_ap_canopy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1725/4558/files/13821748055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1947/6896/files/70538836579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2471/9773/files/brockenhurst_walks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8571/6886/files/lesuzisinejaruvetuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3078/8758/files/29803268767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/rinajimakonewob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7439/4014/files/natoxunosimukix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5919/9650/files/xesumadilefezigipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4365/8650/files/pobexafok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8974/0441/files/61934105213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0070/9791/files/zodiwaxufozusedakononuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8481/5259/files/midugizajifug.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_off00006a48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A48 5628 bytes
SHA-256: 820016643adc063ca56d36bb376ace3524275c9605fe6ba0db3d684943f73240
font_01_sfnt_off00007d8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D8F 9916 bytes
SHA-256: 1357c96a4a5716832bf35750b631999ab25d11f12ffbca9ee91a7abe69f7efc0