Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d85526d417af3fa3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.5 KB Created: 2020-08-23 05:29:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: abe9969f58bc8134cd1302d779c29963 SHA-1: 10faa921950d05a0cac5a7b337902fb52e3b0139 SHA-256: d85526d417af3fa3649040ea0892a7af5fadd2022ad5691ee430057a326399dd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is disguised as a business plan. This indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text and URLs. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggests a link farm used to obscure the malicious redirector.

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=glaze+new+business+plan+2019+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lekanil.rockwoodstoneunitedchurches.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683003/5000109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resabek.fatpunkproductions.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695213/9044978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.iinsitu.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383319/65a35b813b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bighammershields.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398252/zawigixagefozusaraki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shineonpro.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775055/9bbc3f9e4c3a216.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/1/0431/3474/6790/files/kunipuwexelajozotonez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2402/3715/files/zuvafujeleri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7470/7868/files/mezoporigununukupagisuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6009/2315/files/guwupola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/65621046881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4296/3613/files/root_kindle_fire_1st_generation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8094/9658/files/tunavukote.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_off00004fd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4FD7 5732 bytes
SHA-256: d64fbb4101df61c7b2872d8c80c7620da2df72958600826134fd8e537c549f45
font_01_sfnt_off0000638f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x638F 13788 bytes
SHA-256: df4b6777e9ba999a142380e4f17ec335385ed432b3b71223fe4be95f4cc7f49b