Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc6d6e360686e217…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-24 14:15:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9a9a7c8bfeb988002966a21ae57a834a SHA-1: 6b40f95f5bd999d0bfd92eea647ac7e44a1f86b5 SHA-256: dc6d6e360686e217faa3afadb7220ab957e0d2eec83520a2892e9f534f79c58e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=battlefield+v+firestorm'. Another critical heuristic identified a PDF link farm, suggesting a tactic to distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Battlefield v firestorm' and the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=battlefield+v+firestorm', indicating a lure to a potentially 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=battlefield+v+firestorm In PDF document text
    • http://wusefofe.thusiasdaevangel.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969723/jubalapazawofivim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thehotshoporegon.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637606/jomudukateg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.edenshepherds.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813448/toduv_gidureveki_vefujarupakik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vijubaru.santosayogaandhealth.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378776/15a348031b.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/1/0434/5466/0758/files/kanejopefizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6513/0658/files/75933755449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7273/2836/files/73156856238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1462/7234/files/ashraful_insha_3_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1592/8997/files/78371970191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3795/7023/files/susaridunifetebewemof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4218/6150/files/kawedulatizatukotapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0237/9939/files/ayushman_bharat_application_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9078/9027/files/mixed_conditionals_with_answers.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_off00006f17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F17 5164 bytes
SHA-256: faf3e01b917c72beb8d78b948d8188fa96662ef6562eecd1791209d2656f1093
font_01_sfnt_off00008095.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8095 10732 bytes
SHA-256: ed9a3ae907b4f3ff7fccb80c2da47bf8d27ef322917dc34ee3e29568d8177cc0