Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0592db8ac37f2cb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-23 13:41:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 06924390cb4c4be76b84aed8cf4c9fcc SHA-1: 660ae0c52f82eb280dad9406694280dc21285894 SHA-256: 0592db8ac37f2cb8443a6ca18658d18282c48f892202fa29e69ed21cea41e61a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link to a redirector URL, ttraff.com, which is associated with malicious activity and SEO link farms. This suggests the document is part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely attempting to trick users into downloading unwanted software. The presence of numerous links to Shopify-hosted PDFs further supports the SEO link farm hypothesis.

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=archeage+begins+mod+apk In PDF document text
    • http://files.thehappypaintbrush.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163904/pefoxora.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/1/0431/6348/4315/files/92035147859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0558/3266/files/65405682994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4083/2678/files/bosch_security_systems_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2561/3475/files/83343452442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9739/0244/files/gafafug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/21096031872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4535/5682/files/i_ll_follow_you_deep_sea_baby.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9621/0594/files/31182786494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2913/4501/files/51493690276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1701/7256/files/16201000721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9567/8357/files/jewigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3541/0077/files/marginal_distribution_joint.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_off0000636f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x636F 5648 bytes
SHA-256: 144bef26f4d84e2cefa6aab683cacb3f738e6ab1c9d4bdfefe9bb5fa8badc6b4
font_01_sfnt_off00007672.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7672 10360 bytes
SHA-256: d9750e7f4bf770ca6a38dae7b71c64fc7f8084bb4c7ba1b08448167be2e04ec0

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