Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddf5ed6ed1695acc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2020-09-07 13:09:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 463d8b95eb5731c1f8c6a2d7ffccad75 SHA-1: 94a627633dba0a67672225bf773b84dac6bded7b SHA-256: ddf5ed6ed1695acc778c3e5fc834f0594cf6b1665362cca4b04b493b3cbf3f10
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=acid+rain+full+information'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many of which are hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, suggesting a phishing or redirection attempt.

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/wix?keyword=acid+rain+full+information In 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/1/0440/1784/4382/files/jekawap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6211/7030/files/molarity_and_dilution_practice_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9265/6799/files/53497063943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2955/2552/files/fozul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_449b2338c7df4bd79634cab84a69969d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8bbd7_2aef213ec3a844e0a375f2c1a201d2de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ac0094_f02eefa5284f4acca3239592e6684cd8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87b9a8_83a83753b8d449eb9d68a6c72fec8b3b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ceb2e8_828d40b6075842f382c1ccced428649a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6163/1389/files/aisi_321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8090/8954/files/bulawayo_polytechnic_application_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1986/0125/files/96329492430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5516/7126/files/jazalezimewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7510/7992/files/bigger_than_hip_hop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0581/2629/files/brackets_punctuation_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4903/3640/files/butterball_electric_fryer_xl_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6277/8263/files/povukonekiwakuxidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/0053/2889/files/what_is_a_performance_practice_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8669/1998/files/sevoba.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_off0000ee63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE63 4976 bytes
SHA-256: 6634c392c73a4939071dbcba88cb689e901f69e258b9ba5487fce7f6958ad07e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF41 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 318802742731942591e0e195b5fc0fa0fa353e9dbc67243e30ba27e8c332edf3
font_02_sfnt_off0001245b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1245B 16100 bytes
SHA-256: e8be64a599b4775abf69106d1ea2a605297721d8ccc8071fb3d67c702b09cfa6