Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1e57bdf2babb4c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2020-08-10 15:08:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5d42d1ee1a671f6d4e689675fbb93bf4 SHA-1: bd494526fa677840ab0f820b4f900b9e430f6513 SHA-256: f1e57bdf2babb4c0fb06fa90c4d8322d3c17d14f68e2a1df3b607285b140e788
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt, likely to direct users to malicious content or further phishing pages. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=amylase+production+by+fungi+pdf', reinforcing the malicious redirector finding. The presence of many external links also indicates a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic.

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=amylase+production+by+fungi+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://modefi.providencefriends.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163599/kovimomezifodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.carolbelcherlmt.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695339/5409540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.counselingwithcatherine.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776483/84d4cd44e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cvintegrativetherapies.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681488/suxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.talmygroup.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695530/8295226.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/1/0431/0522/2822/files/tolegivemulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8669/3023/files/zimufisopajiwixopob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6865/2697/files/r_summary_statistics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0705/7825/files/19983023963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6775/3116/files/76809389521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6925/1487/files/doxurujisitareniwizatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0564/8807/files/wudaxeporun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0858/7936/files/embryology_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3550/0439/files/remonusipuvabinuwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3443/4969/files/aprender_italiano_a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2561/3475/files/refezefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7880/2846/files/cancer_de_prostata_imss.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4211/1650/files/critical_thinking_in_nursing.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
🗂 Part of campaign: mountainairdance.com 7 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000114f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114F8 5708 bytes
SHA-256: 1fe78c9fb693d456a22a87d853cf7ba597ce6672c28aa81ed4566189cd62d6fd
font_01_sfnt_off0001284a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1284A 10292 bytes
SHA-256: 67766c4d382753c63e5b333b4884fa0ff9de4384bf3d2b34e0670680f0c4442e