Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e72ccf11e6d52e4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2020-08-21 18:16:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 70a287e789b171526f2b124618444f52 SHA-1: 522cef704df070a6280a85b64045b845349b7a4c SHA-256: e72ccf11e6d52e4e38f4a590d3af75a0481f3ecacfb2f5865b6c1b0fe3cfe60b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.com' with a lure related to 'The Bling Ring movie'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm behavior, embedding numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The embedded URL in the document body also points to the same malicious redirector. These elements suggest a phishing or redirection attack aimed at leading the user to malicious content.

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=the+bling+ring+movie In PDF document text
    • http://juzum.marionsmediterranean.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302870/kijesexef-rijazal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.coonambleagfieldday.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406430/e4e0e10b8b5d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lavalstgermain.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775866/5976637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.marylandpla.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740464/pojav-vupupodo.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/1/0433/9469/5329/files/towabuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2378/5370/files/jeparuzaxuzanuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7877/9047/files/weragi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8937/1040/files/59220766835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0842/6147/files/din_fastener_standards.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tozonolemudafolafoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0195/3952/files/alphonso_dunn_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9730/8840/files/85607423854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3532/8663/files/bitupodipob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5959/2859/files/kozajufunukiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2640/7833/files/time_card_template.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_off0000ee9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE9F 4860 bytes
SHA-256: 7f92f39c6d38d4a380e32f63ea8891e2897bc6e5a51b0ee8cb7b9f9dd7b116d8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF07 11148 bytes
SHA-256: da3a29ed069f408a2b5a1164b3039282b5204de2eb313680730aadce5655b887