Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea10cefa8ad16c89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.4 KB Created: 2020-08-02 12:02:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5f778483de449c1495d368cfda8c1235 SHA-1: b9a14d7b623954c9d96401662486b680497c0e2f SHA-256: ea10cefa8ad16c895351619b1300234c3fe34534889ba2dce3943df7f0337266
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic firing indicates that the PDF links to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=aisc+manual+14th+edition+pdf', suggesting a lure to download or view a document. The presence of numerous Shopify links, while some are benign, contributes to a link farm strategy. 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=aisc+manual+14th+edition+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.newqha.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606546/7679ec2bce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.adventuregirlsnj.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606248/jegadaxodekelotibav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.acas.us/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815343/4688033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.evansvillecathedralofpraise.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378897/3303613.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/1/0437/2925/6602/files/watch_iron_sky_online_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1758/4283/files/60773602974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2440/8988/files/buvikamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6676/9051/files/tulaverebogozuzugitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3459/1907/files/12481668335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7274/8710/files/jiririjejarov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1052/2277/files/miwezekotagen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2177/0657/files/90768163338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4116/9303/files/taxefoxividofup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2466/2173/files/kutozokewamugosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3720/2344/files/minions_songs_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3849/7185/files/40848756496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2651/4077/files/13752373482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3432/8738/files/lutof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7279/0428/files/24588133355.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_off00004cee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CEE 5428 bytes
SHA-256: 28efdf15f2c689a2cade13b4575c5ecfb5093b79a73b8f6f90adf91edc376391
font_01_sfnt_off00005f45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F45 9740 bytes
SHA-256: 217797bf3c2bd5bdd85df94197bd367a09d823224ee8b62f81ed3c7435d11142