Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d54f995cfb22491f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.9 KB Created: 2020-07-29 15:51:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6f27e226ad72bb53e81768c15405742e SHA-1: f6dd3375180e7c058943091d45b609f13a54a413 SHA-256: d54f995cfb22491f600f5e3d1e32681d893f294025c635d480592452db771c05
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, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This URL is designed to lure users into downloading a fake Adobe PDF reader. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create malicious PDFs. The presence of numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm for SEO poisoning or traffic redirection.

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=%25D8%25AF%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586%25D9%2584%25D9%2588%25D8%25AF+adobe+pdf+reader+%25D8%25A2%25D8%25AE%25D8%25B1%25DB%258C%25D9%2586+%25D9%2588%25D8%25B1%25DA%2598%25D9%2586 In PDF document text
    • http://files.spacecityflyco.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437117/77de4c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nwaw.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776503/vasiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.floral-eden.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740298/momikela.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/1/0437/1018/5621/files/29360571017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0743/4142/files/jofusivexubumufowabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sakemiribukewud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6488/5397/files/lezun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0184/7708/files/65247377982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5077/0333/files/terevelupuwika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/65294746239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6844/8152/files/75938726937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9151/5808/files/55905586397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/53681635306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8477/4552/files/21660374880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7598/3765/files/28615411126.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_008_off0000ca13.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xCA13 25896 bytes
SHA-256: c5b78a5bb78019fa37c28b809366a1c89c329489da24279d72c2ae8d465e726c
font_00_sfnt_off00007d8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D8D 4424 bytes
SHA-256: 8405f6ed5498211f18bdf5797e3de79032f17a33a560da12c47c2836b01f8b34
font_01_sfnt_off00008c8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C8A 10392 bytes
SHA-256: fc98a626aa67b2c026aa94b3b2b73bf6f59581a26b976203a1d867fc96244090
font_02_sfnt_off0000b051.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB051 17504 bytes
SHA-256: c14ec4d9002bbec6bc8c3ca71fe221d134030d98e4e61df5daaba0f7d844c06a