Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec57b46a07fdf4c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

145.5 KB Created: 2020-08-21 03:33:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6c7ae7091182eb22ffd081f15ba31f35 SHA-1: b7180084acd2ad6b5ff84abe5ad53aba10d979a3 SHA-256: ec57b46a07fdf4c3b66f0f48b5f128c2bb3a61438e265a80158eb871119c6b18
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external PDF links, indicating a potential SEO poisoning or traffic generation scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=aerofarms+annual+report In PDF document text
    • http://files.secretspartanburg.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164419/busaretasepajud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.savefarthingworthgreen.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681194/dc5d99981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kokir.natesessentialtraining.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407736/320178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaninosu.amarilysfictionediting.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871921/c6076b3613f35bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.puldinauto.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775171/depimob-kuxenafobix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9117/3278/files/simple_present_tense_reading_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/54748680829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2270/5055/files/19762399169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2691/files/61299728543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0531/3177/files/43166277322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5905/9615/files/jazujusivuriwupadizilute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4587/8950/files/42383970776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4029/8392/files/candy_convert_to_jpg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2211/3173/files/51048399094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1566/6849/files/razaboguwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7373/2768/files/wosevidajasopumewuzosovex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1905/0908/files/tanipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7808/1942/files/69383844069.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001dd32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DD32 4868 bytes
SHA-256: ff863ed8791439e91dd30d39ba313abd7d4aa77d868483d632e4ac4cca05219a
font_01_sfnt_off0001ed9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1ED9E 11364 bytes
SHA-256: e76648f5e3f1c46874085fa28e6ee76798415b955a1d954f469c9c4a7b0c581c
font_02_sfnt_off00021477.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21477 16208 bytes
SHA-256: 1d4d671ae502080d93142a7eeda7a219ae6747fc4e119e8b75dad7192e420eff
font_03_sfnt_off000229a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x229A3 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378