Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de029d8fe2d957dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.2 KB Created: 2020-08-22 22:54:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e3e23d6674724ba0b94b84eaa15b7633 SHA-1: 23b4b0213bf33a3f7b8208c52394f2280388f771 SHA-256: de029d8fe2d957ddf3c5aa2923931a0741148ded326329e41c509d909b2492f1
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, with a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK pointing to ttraff.com. Another critical heuristic, PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, indicates a large number of outbound links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggered the redirector heuristic. The SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE heuristic further suggests the document's intent is to defraud the user, likely by leading them to a phishing or malware distribution site via the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=bovine+spongiform+encephalopathy+wikivet In PDF document text
    • http://files.thedairydashboard.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607005/d485ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotiridij.ttsvoronos.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814229/fizovosadozen-durugepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fridaylanecookieco.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131484029/totulupafir_vapitotunam_wenokuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.journeythroughlifeministries.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406732/zikugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nedlerpalaz.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682204/323ce6e1ac302b.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/1/0438/5816/5925/files/godaridiwuretod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7379/8306/files/accounting_and_financial_analysis_in_the_hospitality_industry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1442/2687/files/48189632307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6105/1546/files/49513366573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8127/7352/files/91241700051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9644/6878/files/lapurenisabexolip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1396/3929/files/imperative_programming_language.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6965/files/photo_background_eraser_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6839/9524/files/nuxexopagilobolezivimega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7974/5192/files/73501195806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3166/4552/files/xumekerukawivukigor.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_off00018906.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18906 5796 bytes
SHA-256: eced86987baf548122b7a8d97eb4c8f4e9bc142197927198875101dc2687b3f5
font_01_sfnt_off00019cb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19CB9 14836 bytes
SHA-256: 875ce0247dbafbd4158190ff27d5f1438de25abc1612d12620fe79378161762f