Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9ba5fbda70b3fba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.4 KB Created: 2020-08-28 13:38:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d21e356c3a09a97bfd43d608f064af47 SHA-1: b5ba14802326348b4e21e3f2c30c21038839ee65 SHA-256: c9ba5fbda70b3fba8294ca5ca47cf5c8d4d0d0359d30455014b3443b10ed9506
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to SEO-optimized URLs designed to appear as legitimate downloads. The primary redirector, 'ttraff.com', is flagged as malicious and likely leads to a phishing or malware distribution site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL, reinforcing the lure.

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=what+to+listen+for+in+music+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.reelanimaltalent.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872087/bosofajobos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wekanewi.historylessonsforthemoderninvestor.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379061/2121207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jusom.roguevalleymontessori.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813528/tasuvowanemolunurano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.keonilearning.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637635/bad20.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/1/0432/6670/3516/files/rogazemuxupeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8938/5888/files/23333621991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4610/9341/files/48059611113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0818/0895/files/xobaguvekojalutusumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4754/9088/files/pdf_watermark_app_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/7692/8924/files/73209770769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6794/6648/files/canon_eos_rebel_t5i_manual_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9180/3801/files/petufunigukifovomunabiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/fuvisatojajifepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8911/5801/files/kinemazozufatifusanemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1705/1039/files/gosaravukutekebilarenetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6617/1296/files/46559235036.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_off0000686c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x686C 5288 bytes
SHA-256: b6e82290c30c106570c92610c11302c8f61c0a61a484788ad8dbc5184b70da39
font_01_sfnt_off00007a3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A3F 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 3a2e292c48104f956252760305520b3e442d7797a10018c228cd778f37cfb2b4
font_02_sfnt_off00009e42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E42 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3