Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebe8d55bf9083db5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.6 KB Created: 2020-08-10 10:49:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4c85a58be1017f756f9bc9f6265c5940 SHA-1: ae0cc234ba8a565a2a1d7a8f4c8a2c51d7b8cbf9 SHA-256: ebe8d55bf9083db59561c2a44eeb92f7b03dd89ca39c5e4d8f9c545588c084b5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=banking+services+chronicle+magazine+may+2020+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text fragments that appear to be related to the lure, such as 'Banking services chronicle magazine may 2020 pdf'. The primary malicious IOC is the ttraff.cc redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to a further stage of the attack.

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.cc/pify?keyword=banking+services+chronicle+magazine+may+2020+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bogiw.vitalityvalet.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740214/sanesulasudasitidan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fortbrookgames.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407227/sowobo_tavugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pumikaxa.adrianbaldwin.net/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302780/dukejilavugiget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bradymikusko.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814977/sawujikewowefed_vemabikofo_sopapevasonig_sosorofi.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/1/0437/2656/9633/files/52832217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0681/9493/files/veroniripolajatiwutax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/27896055736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2756/0610/files/46202953799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6425/2823/files/designing_data_intensive_applications_martin_kleppmann_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9724/2280/files/jofofowomowevumilupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2806/2109/files/9121253757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0083/1905/files/47343301101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9592/4640/files/24110359835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6808/7701/files/app_secrets_sean_casto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8220/3801/files/bass_guitar_scales_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/14490041284.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_off00008614.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8614 6168 bytes
SHA-256: ba4a86c0e138bc011fee33e58a65249ab9db938b7e973d8a45461cbc2c687f08
font_01_sfnt_off00009b0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B0B 13076 bytes
SHA-256: 73848b7d513a3003dc457e8052456b9f233123dc769616482f31c66559439a1e