Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f26685ed6cb0ca82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.7 KB Created: 2020-08-11 02:59:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0455e8578acfbd4203d667b84b9dbd1e SHA-1: a2a6ffcc194ebaa8307f6ea024235c5c4569a5a2 SHA-256: f26685ed6cb0ca824e67d84265ab82ab2d09f89e1517ec4fac9df77504999c3b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, likely to appear legitimate. One critical heuristic firing indicates a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body contains garbled text but includes the target URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious content as a leadership styles PDF.

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=leadership+and+leadership+styles+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.somethingsomethingtheatre.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695663/f00ffa2e44fae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.agoodsoakbathandbody.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969403/b8090fd3a806b5c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fanatixwrestlingfederation.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814050/5074625.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/1/0430/8526/7097/files/lapevowimekipuwadopufok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dobemajafapurotexujebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6013/2005/files/zanirososebexujefikutoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4916/5734/files/58301039255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1895/6448/files/winrar_64_bit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7700/0611/files/aprender_italiano_descargar_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1916/6119/files/mutorewoluxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6065/8333/files/41825305341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4489/6917/files/78725528609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pazobezosajage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2328/3862/files/caesar_cipher_python.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008145.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8145 5172 bytes
SHA-256: 09404cec73c5abfd53ae49c86b81e63d3ad555857f813ce61cb441ce85b15e05
font_01_sfnt_off000092df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92DF 10264 bytes
SHA-256: b1b2e1056b53b48149bb22c01d872199a03923ad5502e6466e48ad940ede84cb

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