Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fe589bb4ab240ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-14 23:57:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: be1549f30b3b0051551a0fa3c12f59f2 SHA-1: 3fc3b2a29a372f03a256a5398690559662874a7e SHA-256: 0fe589bb4ab240ae3ee7ab608c3b2b188927d41e22eeafbe36d409129cdc7945
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.cc) which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and a benign-looking PDF title, suggesting a lure. The presence of a large number of external links, including to Shopify domains, indicates a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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.cc/pify?keyword=welcome+to+gotham+challenges+cheat+sheet In PDF document text
    • http://xedupeba.pechamps.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739024/sajazusagonun_mesamu_fonorewikoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sizep.tradewatercandles.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454696/maruxurukit-gitoponefake-kilera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nidekiwu.limodafinancial.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407406/1479336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sukaridesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378899/6553239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.momsarefrommars.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406885/pazojesazopax-fenutezozil-bakebivug.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/1/0432/8249/7701/files/genestealer_cult_codex_v8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6576/1176/files/62339737814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4501/1112/files/diwisunad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9164/7894/files/d_d_artificer_revised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4104/7206/files/lupidibofiwigebadozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6083/8050/files/10271536443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8207/2732/files/butoxalatur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4073/3341/files/81377266063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9856/9888/files/57708582070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1787/1265/files/lalumedidinen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7400/9753/files/8362740434.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: pechamps.com 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000064d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64D3 4872 bytes
SHA-256: 9f7d3982d6dba79a47a42730b040c7876cf070dd3e3d389f17bc0dfb6e687327
font_01_sfnt_off00007543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7543 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 18cf5b8f609423da0de973fd24f66142cf35fbec53859767ffc4242a244e7a0c
font_02_sfnt_off000098cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98CC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333