Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e595f127b1c30f27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.2 KB Created: 2020-09-11 09:43:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0268bbfcff0d8cf74c8e6e745ddd1117 SHA-1: bf85a596bb17c688dc64fc96dc3b320ebaf4509a SHA-256: e595f127b1c30f27199747b3d0eaa17ea7f618513bf4bb2c851cc5a65e904ca1
184 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.cc, which is designed to lead users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a potential link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to mask the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, and the PDF structure itself does not indicate specific exploit techniques beyond redirection.

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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=interstellar+stay+piano+sheet+music In PDF document text
    • http://files.highheartcrystalhealing.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398533/63da3134dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jotaf.pianoincolor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408738/nedesekoxazuzojek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.raisingtheskirt.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776619/xakununa-xevesuza-gamopabuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.katesclosetconsignment.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381021/933922937fcb410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.weymedia.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776110/5391857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninuxo.stallionwood.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871505/japaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nimatennis.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384293/nopurujepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jovansjourney.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738955/vabuzijib_tufem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fontrix.comhttp://www.nhncorp.comIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2945/5263/files/59027720270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8091/7926/files/wow_expulsom_farming_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3598/4029/files/adwords_fundamentals.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0737/6542/files/south_park_asspen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3033/1039/files/bevidozolomutumurusudiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/90661f_08c7f0cbaa65415eb4cd5c33d9d83df8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_12fa154c89db44c18fc1d7407f21dbf2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97634b_e36deedc528f4db0a7a2dcf1330263e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/98857b_99c2a9836be047d2b3c745370fa98045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1decf9_3c18d989ae994b31bebb0450930a2df0.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a80f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA80F 5096 bytes
SHA-256: 0daf3b5307a99510ea369cb3029095d798879fc0d5edb07375ed6e74217ad3dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000b92d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB92D 2348 bytes
SHA-256: f3e026c142d6e59820cb9e1d83ca527e771683b69fa7af81ffef58b476633888
font_02_sfnt_off0000c353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC353 8796 bytes
SHA-256: 09817f20742a4ad3d9919d739fa3813163f4a0686a41cb09621e641ba0a65f96
font_03_sfnt_off0000e152.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE152 3676 bytes
SHA-256: d73edf52f23ab6dc1af324a3853448b7f96034ffaa53e7749a836b2f1744f8e7
font_04_sfnt_off0000ee41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE41 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361