Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2eb3a1a2c5391bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2020-07-31 14:02:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 92cbe23b04da4f8199f2c795b50759cc SHA-1: 056b1f59f411d301e4586bb65fbfce4e28c4c94d SHA-256: d2eb3a1a2c5391bcd553ae4ca31944d17574c8df94f0297e37548d8d55de19ec
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. This suggests a phishing or malware delivery attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Alkanes and alkenes', likely a lure to entice users to click the malicious link. 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=alkanes+and+alkenes+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.breakthechainfitness.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379049/1316a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pioneerframeworks.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740595/450990939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.northarlingtoncert.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775309/9982665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cherryvalleybowhunters.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303245/fc4a7.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/1/0434/8303/7860/files/66024519218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2335/8358/files/63552804111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2376/1571/files/57375167477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2702/7352/files/xokopenetaduwuzelaxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5507/7790/files/feminiganirufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1126/5944/files/91553897641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9572/8029/files/53747002412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3594/1285/files/roruxogotagaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fofigez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3676/0485/files/58875730560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pizejop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6796/4580/files/xidatebem.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bbec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBEC 4544 bytes
SHA-256: 83a30505dc38db216de037aa965801cb39e594c3bd222b200bfd216d9228d74a
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB60 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 92f51f1c9994dc575f9a0ec7dd1063218e0fcb426fae6e562aab26438cb499ff
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF26 16080 bytes
SHA-256: 3d50f22d3ae6d9a4461c814f81554cc573a3512c555c2f223aedeeaca19cd658