Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5d94d018c22ad37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-11 14:39:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6b61da527c89abf7faa294c279dc508d SHA-1: ae11733b89d65e7cfb654158ebb2b2d4479a293e SHA-256: c5d94d018c22ad37b2f471a105b617a683f33d544e9aeb96cb88b083c6eb74bc
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector link. The embedded URL points to 'ttraff.com', which is known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other links, suggesting a lure to external content. The presence of numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final malicious destination.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=arap+bahar%25C4%25B1+ve+t%25C3%25BCrkiye+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vagip.collaborativeteachersinstitute.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383314/ladogexegub_pevak_fezifudi_rivese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.trutalentproductions.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607310/bc7f48a2715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.portasuptsblog.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968950/vexuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jennifercoffey.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380687/c0efd208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladolovum.mississauganation.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/2791747.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/1/0431/0558/3266/files/63106896263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8015/4269/files/learning_management_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1335/7211/files/jafulerira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8893/7120/files/jilosabolefaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8640/4000/files/peniruwuzopezufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3811/7781/files/effortless_english_full_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mojedisubeweful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7961/5142/files/navpers_1080_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/rerisorajomowuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7039/8372/files/91415270508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5005/0460/files/fapepuku.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_off0000634f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x634F 5428 bytes
SHA-256: 20d024c84ca6e986e77ebce7936a1e8bbfde5c9dd7f2cd9d55b1371c1bc8f61a
font_01_sfnt_off00007595.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7595 16432 bytes
SHA-256: 7323cf712959a0a40cf3526e35e5b8915a560d27362f9db7065407b67c6ba756