Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f940972533ba1552…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-08-25 04:19:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 12a7aa020a631e79038687d48e67cc38 SHA-1: 3a4d8b7661df6ff3b474b12673d5092d4b45f34a SHA-256: f940972533ba15521a75c624239370c6b2a56ae75361b2fdc57860f6b3c0be18
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a malicious intent to redirect the user. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=ambassadors+choir+video In PDF document text
    • http://files.aerospades.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856769/2c59cd1b781a383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stephaniemarazzo.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776142/7174891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.faithconnectionsonmentalillness.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968934/saludanosexes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digusetut.altoonahealthandrehab.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/fatoje_tazusedakeraz_jetet_jawut.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/1/0430/3070/8385/files/84713817812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3601/6802/files/69199736729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2212/2151/files/ecg_interpretacion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7416/4638/files/contacts_backup_apk_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9864/5404/files/pafuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3197/7369/files/mathematical_proofs_chartrand_3rd_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9512/8216/files/36964133312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4276/7001/files/94358163273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6258/2693/files/4553131039.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005b9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B9F 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 442a3b8b6195cd3dcb66e5e4b95388a2352d8d051926a830f244f53967ffaa98
font_01_sfnt_off00006d9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D9C 14864 bytes
SHA-256: 16751ffc537481b7df59ad13660f954c3a76a011ff37b6bd1fc67248461bd5eb
font_02_sfnt_off00009b6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B6E 16092 bytes
SHA-256: e9fe716c2abc985b12a899a49d5539e4e8be1b56d50c083b30290d85a2a7c848