Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f98af9ec01a6470c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-08-31 07:13:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f2b86409005339c60b6af6d56f72b400 SHA-1: e387f0ff5f5db8bdc8a740ecaeb0301fbbf1fd85 SHA-256: f98af9ec01a6470cd6cfddba33fb690320f8c67f1627199019d14bfd270a76a5
282 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.club, which is likely part of a phishing campaign. The document also exhibits characteristics of a credential harvesting lure, specifically mentioning password protection and MFA prompts. The presence of a download button further supports the phishing pretext. The embedded URLs and the document's structure suggest a social engineering attack aimed at tricking users into revealing sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • 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.club/wix?keyword=ukulele+songbook+pdf+2018 In 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://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ca32a8_7681c9dbd98b4fd7804835dbdae8313e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4cf28d_7b6cbc918af04cf8bbb47e4661e15cc8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3bfb702965b1477b80a3483ce8996ab9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f459ea_dd49f9e818e542ddb3b60d9b8d39e06a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0019/1400/files/fusionner_plusieurs_document.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7666/2949/files/6542724990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8531/5744/files/41091129343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6337/7048/files/xakuwowotaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3391/0681/files/ilpa_standard_fee_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9672/7962/files/35451484734.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006ae2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AE2 5372 bytes
SHA-256: ef17926e71c450146cd34c47f5ac059fbf623cac897baae923a8771e81d859ea
font_01_sfnt_off00007d3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D3B 10372 bytes
SHA-256: c43f867395011142706b4d205e7041e164d601d70abf1e2e6cb7f816bd3d3fc8
font_02_sfnt_off0000a0b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0B8 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230