Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 002b79eb52dcd1a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-08-10 11:36:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8c4d6f6818e90c8e3d0ceae5481467ea SHA-1: 95777db985c60c69a3ab489b887dd941e6dcedfb SHA-256: 002b79eb52dcd1a77f610e420f20465b17e083e9fee73907279284444bf5e834
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to SEO-optimized Shopify domains, likely intended to appear legitimate. The primary link, however, redirects through 'ttraff.com', a known malicious redirector, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=grammar+games+and+activities+1+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.coachhousecochins.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740065/fadalupilisivex_dirulomukamuvet_vekuwuporumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.impactremaps.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131860060/tolipaz-wikijobunosiwi-vuzegedidipifiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alexanderswoodfloors.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739533/8f6b463ca3f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vibrantlifechiropractic.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857580/rowufeverokesim.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/1/0428/1905/9868/files/soda_free_trial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8876/3298/files/vocabulary_test_grade_6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6904/6935/files/3600_minutes_to_hours.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5390/6080/files/sejesuxiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1327/5811/files/folizodebagefunopujavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7347/8560/files/5905539051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8941/5583/files/cancer_tete_du_pancreas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5100/7638/files/lewalusanamebikuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/85947343199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8475/8696/files/5583575897.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_off00006dc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DC9 5584 bytes
SHA-256: 59e0c1ffd985d3baa0a58e24644d4b9744805a771ce6a027e546a2c3d62e2ab9
font_01_sfnt_off000080c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80C5 10140 bytes
SHA-256: fe54f285df889b13ecfe189e39ad1420160813ed3c0c8c30bffe7d18d348402a

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