Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d94d9ae6165e52de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.2 KB Created: 2020-08-14 02:15:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a8cf32d58d0bab1a52230609a78d258a SHA-1: 2193f738dc0bf32231231b6aa1e51bd07365bc36 SHA-256: d94d9ae6165e52ded9e4f6969d4ee55f10f96f2fd24a2263bba22d48f0e659b6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.cc) that is known to host malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for design templates, suggesting a social engineering pretext. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a malicious redirector link confirms the intent to lead the user to harmful infrastructure.

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.cc/pify?keyword=bootstrap+design+templates+dashboard In PDF document text
    • http://vapisuwab.lowcountryliberals.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454526/632b4c9c7f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fitrdeluca.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682822/jutafekodemef_lazedilikaza_zopaxo_tuluremevenos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilar.ashavandoyon.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813846/jijiwasuxab_gizanek_sepekimimus.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/1/0437/8404/4705/files/vovijasuwiroku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9218/1153/files/42369731853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9220/4950/files/65307388886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8283/2280/files/marlon_brando_songs_my_mother_taught_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9765/9294/files/larson_calculus_10th_edition_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7144/6939/files/tuparesozufakasit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4586/3067/files/arduino_programming_notebook_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8496/2200/files/gijujoned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2668/4824/files/skripsi_akuntansi_syariah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6885/9303/files/mowaturokelamekuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4567/3377/files/full_body_workout_routine_for_weight_loss_at_home.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4091/3046/files/wazeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5007/4269/files/69733022554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6332/0471/files/1247067797.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_off0000b61f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB61F 5564 bytes
SHA-256: 963175bc7ce8e78d25b80309101c01eb27ac7a840e0c15fc1f3d35902ac5602b
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8D4 13692 bytes
SHA-256: 204778048b2e31b3e27ea5ccefc89019ede4ce3fafd144d903d80e130f9e69f6