Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 029949e8c396efa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.0 KB Created: 2020-08-12 07:19:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 748bb32673a7e247a44954287b8f0a39 SHA-1: ac40e7cca905b75ca06d234d694b9265531f9156 SHA-256: 029949e8c396efa9630f9741cfa715823e980c5f43e28eddb2379d9b8dd4053d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'authentication methods pdf' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a phishing or scam lure. The presence of many links, including to Shopify domains, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially improve SEO for malicious content.

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/wb?keyword=authentication%20methods%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ronyahperformingarts.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740231/jatanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadumer.ddepict.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775432/foruzavagajab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamurod.ericavannon.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/6228943.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/1/0430/5892/1621/files/35088200415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3287/0037/files/tabibugulag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3619/6507/files/nakabatofoguderogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tepumesuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6085/3920/files/xiwapuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3935/0181/files/jquery_remove_children.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8307/1642/files/pazilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5966/7363/files/26500153542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9918/4551/files/astaghfar_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/49816413057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2204/6616/files/25128674754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8128/5286/files/cabot_trail_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7969/5517/files/99128118930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7950/7870/files/rolixuni.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_off00007821.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7821 5136 bytes
SHA-256: 6c113ea27c5b657f18a9294142c63835ae7a591b8591020aad6ed3616277ef19
font_01_sfnt_off0000896d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x896D 10352 bytes
SHA-256: a7704c269d1ee38626a1705102c079ff8d5bc906ee1d1bdc23df3af4f7353d4b
font_02_sfnt_off0000acc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACC7 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176