Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 002e34804a3e11fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-02 18:22:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f8fbeeec9b99ad945362b574bdee96fb SHA-1: c8ed1d145b87ec40acea53e74222b62575817969 SHA-256: 002e34804a3e11fd8ca1c3b2022c24d8bd19d9847383451e30e54b351d6ced5d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a malicious redirector service. The primary malicious link identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=quatrain+form+crossword, which is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document also includes a link farm of 15 PDF files hosted on Shopify, likely to manipulate search engine results or distribute further payloads. The presence of these links and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

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=quatrain+form+crossword In PDF document text
    • http://files.321letshavefun.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695531/347e9f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.durandsmith.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482975/7196411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hypnosismo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407226/xubakifukara-wezut-boxuz.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pafinekumukomotutawewokab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/punafaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8973/1479/files/vadexamireg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8094/9659/files/xexowalixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0239/5813/files/87107454336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4474/8950/files/vezazetifatiguzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2182/7222/files/fejeluzefekavedudubipid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3524/5216/files/73741238066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6123/8168/files/vadenoliluzidazeposix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2426/1026/files/73223623472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3616/4774/files/moxelitibonofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4445/4056/files/97181632885.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_off00005ff5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FF5 5288 bytes
SHA-256: 452f3165f585d49d39bb286ff005d58685ffe88766c22d36e02c20abcfe19503
font_01_sfnt_off000071f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71F1 10112 bytes
SHA-256: 750d786f6f7c59a6923305a55662566923da622eafbc5017856a077a0c66cb2f