Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d270d309083f9119…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.9 KB Created: 2020-08-22 13:02:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b332f81d90f02a18ecbac13d8cfe9801 SHA-1: 7ddfbbe83d153a57e302c4c2c4d02cac867171e6 SHA-256: d270d309083f911972d86e92e0b0eb4de1af20f0fe06ca895de50cf652094ba3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Introductory chemistry study guide answers' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting PDFs, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the primary malicious destination. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=introductory+chemistry+study+guide+answers In PDF document text
    • http://kotovi.orfeonportuense.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710621/3109153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.updatescentral.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384018/fotimiva_nidanu_gibuvidedavade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kosezap.nancymaldonado.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775062/6325edac.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/1/0440/6837/2632/files/xumunolupometeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2285/5837/files/free_bunco_score_sheets_word_document.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8254/7361/files/4355278353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8018/8058/files/suzuki_eiger_400_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9297/4499/files/89486136393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1480/7974/files/worigixafafulitipemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5376/9126/files/banned_movies_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5391/6053/files/27939165967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3180/4574/files/gitenugojoxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0976/7584/files/xubigufinubet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5978/1538/files/60039621733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/7554/6791/files/bathroom_fittings_price_list.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000045ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45EC 5452 bytes
SHA-256: 720ff851f6b946c148cfc81e2c8a52ac81aa296444ddba295792c8fb12171206
font_01_sfnt_off0000585c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x585C 10136 bytes
SHA-256: 92192a92037acd0ccc407e568a371930d753ebd1c8b8b38417a1bd53c72d4169

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