Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c91cfa118d90cf49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-05 17:29:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d88db64a73035b7a18f1e39f2bc6940c SHA-1: 12e46917559f8ac6e5db018d71632c93f76c321c SHA-256: c91cfa118d90cf499ac9ff444f9c39c1de9604fa6567b79df76d95625f57e017
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm, with many links hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com' and other domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or improve SEO for malicious sites. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document may be part of a multi-stage attack, where the user is instructed to open a password-protected archive, likely to bypass initial security scans. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous embedded URLs and the redirector link strongly suggest a phishing or malware delivery 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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/wb?keyword=apple%20pencil%20pdf%20markup In PDF document text
    • http://files.dchudphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453194/0ff8849a37eda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.7thbattalion13thartillery.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738534/pukaxugu_wujubofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ifafrog.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409305/rakusedusimadira.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/1/0432/4530/6011/files/lelikatesuxinizosex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2718/3269/files/municipal_wastewater_treatment_plant.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2925/8649/files/tunuwakemubizonepakugako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0056/9753/files/86610228734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0485/3406/files/munegipazovuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3595/9191/files/32983599522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7558/2617/files/13583996356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4396/3548/files/17284949829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1057/2966/files/38055591134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8369/4247/files/el_breviario_de_alarico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5491/6006/files/12055295954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1251/1128/files/tcfexpress_online_banking.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/libidurekatomanazavevufi.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_off00006357.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6357 5176 bytes
SHA-256: 3a1c6c372bd02d1175bba2cd85a68993dd601af2043fbbbf3ac3b3665778ecce
font_01_sfnt_off000074de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74DE 10272 bytes
SHA-256: fd10324fec7e83be70abd3caf6e70a1461273b5f9386e14353b2c6a3f8213799