Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7fa62310667e465…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-08-21 06:43:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 56e75e628e32732017f95ca4beb96a4d SHA-1: ead90ccb57f00ef456f0a673faa029ea25e462a9 SHA-256: e7fa62310667e46560db8a2e2fd701e972e262dc219581563f8e2d4d2086b13e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, some of which are hosted on Shopify. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the same redirector URL and a list of other URLs, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious links. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=digital+marketing+on+various+social+media+platforms In PDF document text
    • http://files.dreampartiesnl.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874566/pisuxalaz-rirotiduki.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/1/0447/1151/0170/files/beethoven_pathetique_1st_movement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/babasetaxoguvivowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2725/7749/files/julelifawatanelugigekola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7941/7504/files/dumiromulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4517/5971/files/online_accessibility_checker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0835/0615/files/celiac_disease_symptoms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8784/6806/files/dixaxaguburek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2409/7175/files/19195792609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/megoxidojixugapilanaseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/6325/0839/files/buckets_of_rain_tab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/6766/2490/files/31423449892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3618/0634/files/komosijudakukofajugamo.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_off000077fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77FE 5600 bytes
SHA-256: 9d7085cc205f80b8ab6347af1c77c76afa4e12001ccff5af2d5340f6e207d76c
font_01_sfnt_off00008b00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B00 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 87a487eac186725cb45ae1dfcd3af28c3c036300864d020af8d3934fcd3116f4