Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dae43699f86dd8b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.9 KB Created: 2020-08-06 01:31:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8122c91282e8e700f2c4c944bfecddf6 SHA-1: 1160ef790d9ec495ab41d1dde0a5cc169b67e907 SHA-256: dae43699f86dd8b0cb92d32f28bf4186de0f4b694cb663182c1fca0fd388b1b6
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 likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site. The document body itself contains garbled text but also includes the malicious URL and numerous other URLs hosted on cdn.shopify.com and other domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. The presence of a malicious redirector URL indicates an attempt to deliver a payload or phish credentials.

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=uhr+lernen+kinder+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://visile.kgreigcpa.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438216/5924633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nicole-pellegrino.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969204/2635070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ligonierhighlandgames.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816036/ed36859012d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilovivix.juniperlactation.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814229/lejow_lebekunoxumof_fizutawubi_karurizotimosel.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/1/0433/0278/1083/files/73878571369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8675/7536/files/28202707363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3517/2770/files/the_challenge_of_democracy_13th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2518/4421/files/tovugedovinevuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5434/2042/files/tensorflow_gpu_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3478/files/preparation_and_sterilization_of_culture_media.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1810/0637/files/vukixafizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0828/6105/files/toledo_craiglist_com.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6265/6165/files/juninuzibixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2656/9633/files/tafivoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5664/3739/files/58410491336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6128/8868/files/soxatomunijotoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6033/9623/files/zukaregibofupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9535/7595/files/romance_guitar_tab.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_off000068e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68E7 4392 bytes
SHA-256: 704f963de400bce363ae55527dd77aa51337f1d5dfe778755fcffb5c0e15dd4b
font_01_sfnt_off000077af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77AF 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 1f6852d9a31a4b1e25e3ed2fa7b6e5b797cb4aaddcda9c591da644b7c8cbb306
font_02_sfnt_off00009af5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9AF5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3