Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6dac48ed55d4560…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.8 KB Created: 2020-08-12 12:26:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1250c3b351f55532cd4977e29427bd89 SHA-1: 25bc02df1c42b5d4812083702e2da177c626d0dd SHA-256: f6dac48ed55d45600e2ea52692dd1cd38828cebd1b62626cfeb5a61eb4e67aa5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to lure users to malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically identified as 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure itself contains multiple external links, suggesting a phishing or redirection attempt.

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=bye+bye+birdie+musical+script+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ashlingplacelabradors.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163684/525a978880de0a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sunriselabradors.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871648/5979783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.waistgame.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397940/8057148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruwibi.sellafurniture.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/8399978.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/1/0430/1045/7753/files/ragesir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/6588/9188/files/reliability_statistics_robert_dovich.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8611/1137/files/97819947968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6643/3429/files/rodutabizutuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8494/6333/files/bifekubeguzogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7173/1880/files/employee_performance_evaluation_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5553/8595/files/ccna_book_6th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0852/3416/files/autumn_calabrese_21_day_fix_meal_plan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1424/8857/files/boxivewudofekekola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4965/5203/files/74540339977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6366/5062/files/denubesoribevexuxomuzuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2078/7613/files/.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/26443777516.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_off0000b75b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB75B 5592 bytes
SHA-256: 152bf7fd3bf315331100251d1a3ff0c5e7fc51e9041515a9d61a4e524ca2c0f7
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA46 15316 bytes
SHA-256: 8741ebed32f73d6dcf4ef9228d98d95998fba74e282c57aede05096d0829c3fe