Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d299b535b382d387…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.1 KB Created: 2020-08-27 21:28:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 69ef170b92de691229748513a9399cb7 SHA-1: 6b961ccc7906aa3ea608c78f400cbb87b8641deb SHA-256: d299b535b382d387c61a17d6e515f4d3cdba0010aeab5bf501a1697f5881d996
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and a reference to 'cdn.shopify.com', which is also listed as a link. This suggests the PDF is designed to trick the user into clicking the malicious link, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=examen+bimestral+sexto+grado+segundo In PDF document text
    • http://files.thomaspatrickryan.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379040/takipuxi_madisonutapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tengshuoindonesia.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383478/7465833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xajinan.ayyamouvement.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775310/715fc98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.morjimcocopalms.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384789/2a0aea98a146c0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.americancollegeofspinesurgery.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382595/391162.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/1/0428/3210/1543/files/73499447308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7492/9319/files/tanasorutosugakunotozavud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/18608783112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2640/7833/files/sonoxoloka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0311/5680/files/dilepedud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1802/6141/files/68127664153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3772/0733/files/40904720303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9661/2768/files/femilagusumadegifijib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2161/5783/files/sonatofudorojugalowip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8076/9951/files/46430602169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1496/3868/files/73392862205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2491/6388/files/darkest_dungeon_sonorous_prophet_guide.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_off0000941c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x941C 5308 bytes
SHA-256: 191478a726b583c24329d54e14334b30d99658d48ac1e4759d68de00f4c53f17
font_01_sfnt_off0000a612.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA612 12292 bytes
SHA-256: 23f47efea9e499f97cfd1e567b6c1306e3df87e3c2eb9733f5cbe76d0e17e0d1