Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0281adf92cd49700…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-22 18:25:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8cfc5081e4332803317adc49e40c7d30 SHA-1: 1d14fcd30dec08f8007cc0716ab8fb4c47aed04d SHA-256: 0281adf92cd49700497f5c90d1c5df5bc158bab82f9d5bba0bb1be76b44c3725
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to other PDFs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic identified links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=mobile+marketing+association+guidelines', which is also present in the document body. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external links and the ML classifier's high confidence indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=mobile+marketing+association+guidelines In PDF document text
    • http://files.lifegolf.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814909/sagojituvomejufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dapefa.utahstudentnurse.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438304/vezoziwofu-nobizobenofusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rujelupab.parentmanagementtraininginstitute.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814238/5594668.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/1/0429/5272/0543/files/jolat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0413/3525/files/lilikotebipakixeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1204/6495/files/spectral_waveform_common_carotid_artery.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9226/1529/files/fraktur_basis_cranii_anterior.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7100/5082/files/tovolilunusixifegif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zonixalekena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3510/7233/files/80830988574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0595/2671/files/91474031353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8823/0053/files/77042895604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7565/7125/files/vilibalidar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7058/6016/files/toravapode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0880/3495/files/panobolorimemilowoxadidur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3484/4059/files/wow_classic_silk_bag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6879/2732/files/80276665984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0806/0574/files/farmacos_antiarritmicos_clasificacion.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_off00006b01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B01 5468 bytes
SHA-256: 90542bb3469723fd57a188200b2e8acda9b382e8cc15a6054413e24176f4e96a
font_01_sfnt_off00007d7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D7C 9908 bytes
SHA-256: 4b9c426511a8d981ba93c93880fcd0d873484dfaeffd8d5bd41315875e66130f