Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da2cfc96a18797b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 00:48:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bdc9c29c52ac29c5421236be22d4ad71 SHA-1: 7aed5bbc5110de192cab92495d9cbff7b4056ded SHA-256: da2cfc96a18797b1d92e323ddefb6cd95546831253a025f79a75a98b47a17d7e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=report+on+calibration+of+burette'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, suggesting the primary intent is to lure the user to this malicious site.

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=report+on+calibration+of+burette In PDF document text
    • http://files.elilanguagemagazines.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303077/8871367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzino.letteringchallenges.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408056/fawifekipizivuvix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wumeri.chipsiunc.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/zaduxodijege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.prairiedogma.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856109/9035ccb23c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bandoncoosbaybuilder.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452981/5261042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/46391305542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1268/4967/files/wiriranifipepur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5955/8053/files/63198204728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2567/7982/files/nufoxovuxoxefuxokezabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1142/3902/files/wasavafusefatemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9182/0711/files/lowivewonezexibikukex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2744/6435/files/retroarch_fire_tv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5247/3252/files/8309094613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8634/7430/files/morfologi_bivalvia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3801/4616/files/fivexatebovodez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3264/9636/files/numerologia_tantrica_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6954/6395/files/69305792073.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000723c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x723C 4860 bytes
SHA-256: 1302b5f531d2c92afd960316617ddd629a86254580e513ca342e60b7649a55c6
font_01_sfnt_off000082d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82D3 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 1a394cdea24463b422318ec0c984bd3c7b2c2e370948929e5ceff7a9410422f1
font_02_sfnt_off0000a6b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA6B5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3