Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bbc00e3e053c780…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-06 03:41:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1961dfe18c374b79fc571e67339ee2e7 SHA-1: 6f4aca2e68d8f8f6e83e2ed813af1b86415a846d SHA-256: 0bbc00e3e053c7805dc3dbf8051d03c93e14a4b19641dc36559fbf21b4fe57e2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects through ttraff.com, identified as malicious. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt using a link farm to obscure the malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, reinforcing the attack pattern.

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=cinderella+man+questions+pdf+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.sacredmusicfestival.org.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454109/tuvuwamakera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shopdovetail.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438137/latofaj_xajine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fontaniemagazine.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815767/sorozufedu-rixifafokufonof-bemitopij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.prowashmyrtlebeach.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606951/vologegufon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alisonledgerwood.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813301/wogumupozip.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/1/0429/1674/1283/files/webcal_mlb_am_tix_redsox_schedule_full.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9507/2674/files/what_is_gear_vr_service.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2724/9826/files/komuvakagiverorudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1086/7871/files/dojuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0201/9487/files/21298921993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0927/2990/files/livros_sobre_minimalismo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7073/2950/files/falerixelaxeveziwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3298/4222/files/45122439882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4169/9478/files/figuresimakedos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3169/1421/files/benefits_of_franchising.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9183/5545/files/54523157982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8406/3654/files/tuvupifuponi.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
🗂 Part of campaign: photocolorongraphics.org 6 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000680b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x680B 5308 bytes
SHA-256: 31e5d42c60ec0266184166a98b51b3eee4612d1db0eb148f3812964ddfc6cd12
font_01_sfnt_off00007a08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A08 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 437261360b42a682a54fdbe3fdd5916e8d48ab1a8c0d24fc7c4ec75a3934592f