Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd6087adaad94510…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.0 KB Created: 2020-08-11 16:23:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7191debc858a0a928f9e44c9b5cd5cf1 SHA-1: f6aa5a1ecd8f9c287020b0a6a20d2e03d6a215f1 SHA-256: cd6087adaad94510b6522b2cc008d62638817345cae0f4b29e4a6a81f78712df
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and appears to be a lure related to hypertension symptoms. The presence of numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious URL. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=signos+y+sintomas+de+la+hipertension+arterial+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.reading2reading.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969555/49253ecafb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wubis.steam-skills.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874284/fobewepage-memopipezixol-dabogidonolo-gulasumifek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.i2cafe.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874201/dunirijiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.connorincalifornia.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814706/laxuti.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/1/0433/0569/7440/files/xunuxesiwofose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2136/8482/files/86431244565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4241/4487/files/6th_grade_math_workbook_mcgraw_hill.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5247/4267/files/public_administration_css_paper_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6536/0034/files/73940570183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5762/4726/files/basic_calculus_grade_11_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9648/9632/files/27191312931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7555/9829/files/pin_for_wiimote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5071/9642/files/tusazojezedur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7247/9647/files/93446318102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8870/6717/files/edexcel_a_level_maths_textbooks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3075/8044/files/25988775859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5469/3537/files/31062443558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6681/7702/files/algorithms_sartaj_sahni.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_off0000731a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x731A 5660 bytes
SHA-256: 6245bef77a3ed3f6009e831f6a5bbfe8c65fc1fda528ed6b10fc341e6c397d6a
font_01_sfnt_off00008628.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8628 11892 bytes
SHA-256: 36a0c7053cf577390fe71def162750232f445bea13f00650ee0658d0f254a08d