Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e60786e68caa79f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-07-27 11:12:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a10f779a9df70cf5b87d48d640aeb57f SHA-1: 3140827802ea8e833abbeab93c8df39468f713e0 SHA-256: e60786e68caa79f234e8e8e03237d92c686d3c6916a1b86dc7a12e32e6aa4625
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating it is a malicious redirector and part of a link farm. It embeds a link to 'ttraff.com', which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to 'GDPR compliance report pdf' and mentions 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure to download a document. The presence of a visual download button further supports a social engineering attack. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=gdpr+compliance+report+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.edsworldwide.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740320/sotilemiz-gukixedesimujar-bevulas-lativeponeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.blessedfreebies.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740905/99b5b2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ms-kyles-kids.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409794/692459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.moehrbetter.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739674/2648df4cb1b7e20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sweetwhiskshoppe.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775373/gipuri.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/1/0428/5064/8223/files/64504169308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6214/8763/files/zajivulinolijomoveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4993/4231/files/33219174180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9720/1576/files/18884650093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/marifurozijuzaledenikegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0920/2597/files/vafog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2626/7806/files/lopiwokazomeduxidib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2756/9576/files/66814896911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3893/3146/files/dewazox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rinubigelezegir.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_off00007983.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7983 4944 bytes
SHA-256: 3feb65fe0a71bb52d05c55a1754447c9fdc8a479c29501eebdf0eff750e1db94
font_01_sfnt_off00008a38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A38 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 983f050e282a06f3e18e0315dfce1e5182017cdb69446c0f23c34868b5e888f4