Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d95beeea8c809eb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 12:46:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7512d129b525ee45dd4b90cd8bbc2888 SHA-1: b6072455918aa3264bd1a8988410999671335ad0 SHA-256: d95beeea8c809eb8ee33fe1f0e02f245e581056b0cda7f94c4cbc24bfb457dcd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body also contains this URL, disguised as a search result for 'believer sheet music free pdf'. This suggests a social engineering lure to direct users to malicious infrastructure. The file also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, which is indicative of a link farm or SEO poisoning technique. No scripts were extracted, and the PDF structure itself does not reveal further malicious intent beyond the embedded links.

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=believer+sheet+music+free+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.spanishschoolbus.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681772/a078f317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ghitaandersen.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874217/demegafileduvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spittpassion.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871518/4c4ff.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/1/0434/8067/8564/files/fumadekanuwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4395/3563/files/volkswagen_cross_fox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1969/6288/files/the_origin_of_apartheid_in_south_africa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7228/9944/files/febavosutomisog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2799/6565/files/jaderifevipab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1932/2022/files/gozemusibitotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9740/0223/files/managerial_accounting_braun_tietz_4th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9812/1119/files/56981889128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0871/5940/files/tell_about_yourself_in_interview_for_freshers_with_answer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4016/2470/files/wofazupalumogonopasamag.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_off00007664.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7664 5296 bytes
SHA-256: 4d4ef7a0a7e74acc38f1149d1d2765d77e6ca282b8d234480fc658b5108e49df
font_01_sfnt_off00008850.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8850 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 5b89d8c34de408d8f1c58fa4ae3cdeaa164cd42004f5668ca38cdd02bc2fd868
font_02_sfnt_off0000ac77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC77 16100 bytes
SHA-256: 84650fe671c70ac66f3af0994468c9b9feb42d01905b0f030d5781e095ef8e52