Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0950f3cd245a4734…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 18:14:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3c6f45f025608b0e2c53cf09ac1c6d40 SHA-1: f5e13fd8c326f85b1a3cdac41b2cb226fc8a2b98 SHA-256: 0950f3cd245a4734d5e4fffb6a1a2aaf552cfae30f6c57f4342fb30c5518acb9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified as a redirector at https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=building+management+ordinance+pdf. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other links to PDF files hosted on Shopify, likely as part of an SEO manipulation tactic to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, supporting the conclusion that this is a phishing or scam lure.

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=building+management+ordinance+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.aurabin.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453406/6167579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dkgca.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871734/3696770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.charltonkupaahee.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969185/6f8550aed930c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.marsjoyofpainting.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606127/1986964.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/1/0432/5015/5688/files/casio_wave_ceptor_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0664/7717/files/widigexukupuvuvaxaman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3846/4417/files/39530540900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7289/6672/files/64635249818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7997/5591/files/34388141824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6717/9162/files/samawiguvat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6119/0554/files/agile_approach_to_project_management.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9726/7112/files/18662443006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5811/0363/files/49254473289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9311/2472/files/cuaderno_de_vacaciones_de_blackie_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0392/7973/files/giruladekisebubixefiniwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3432/0794/files/8087327132.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_off0000601d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x601D 5344 bytes
SHA-256: 0da4452a384bbd4299e79ff9e8b112c090da0a1ba8be8f8d1e4c2feb4d6644e2
font_01_sfnt_off00007234.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7234 9672 bytes
SHA-256: e6fe64cc57b0ed4415f5185650fe2b8256bc4d3e5d6d0949c205f9f020f39e22