Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffb55746e4c1b2d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.7 KB Created: 2020-08-18 16:31:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9f007eeeda327ff29ada7a7641afba83 SHA-1: 6473fb826d4bae71723b967188e35b47417b6cca SHA-256: ffb55746e4c1b2d9bff18e6427c848d067658595846041e7a9ccabc0b5e1aaf8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=21+sheet+street+surgery+windsor'. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to '21 sheet street surgery windsor' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also indicates a link farm, a common tactic for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=21+sheet+street+surgery+windsor In PDF document text
    • http://files.samanthadetillio.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453453/8240969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.truenorthmaintenance.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682615/wuniba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.diamondpaintingconnection.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637016/54469954250056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fortmyerthriftshop.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164112/dapali-tidotalemixid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cc4cl.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775980/ef2002851.pdfIn 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://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6612/8549/files/35085086627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3998/0710/files/kezunutovepisekofaxapave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7990/1085/files/baxituxuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2378/5370/files/appel_d_offre_informatique_quebec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5397/3657/files/hallelujah_lyrics_kate_voegle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0360/8216/files/rofebafow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xuvekalododit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8702/8641/files/59344302198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6014/3014/files/cad_block_free_flowers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4843/5861/files/zoxozegejusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2833/3219/files/44419728961.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006267.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6267 5008 bytes
SHA-256: 2e108187953630a5e29e69b61d7caad4a267b6cec695e97dc3af57c085b063db
font_01_sfnt_off00007381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7381 10140 bytes
SHA-256: e1a520af876cdff488cf308baeabb227468ce23712632c4fa302f7440a16b894
font_02_sfnt_off00009664.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9664 16092 bytes
SHA-256: e9fe716c2abc985b12a899a49d5539e4e8be1b56d50c083b30290d85a2a7c848
font_03_sfnt_off0000ab2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB2C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333