Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1225200d0e2309ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-08-12 20:19:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 981df8bb9719287de32624747f0de930 SHA-1: 7831425fcda251259ab5fe2d68f5b569b592dd94 SHA-256: 1225200d0e2309ea1102950725a816482192bda24ddbd58e68dcb06accd4ed35
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) and a large number of PDF files hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to click on these links, which likely leads to phishing pages or further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded links are the main vector for malicious activity.

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=les%20principes%20comptables%20fondamentaux%20marocain%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://losiwipet.slhschoirs.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607029/8e5dd3cb3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rachellynnspeaks.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814284/dolidirifewokaxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.otterworksusa.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437351/tasegus-rekafi-zeganusisaj-jigavulef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.teamhighlightreel.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871909/lagavave.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/1/0437/0753/1414/files/tefaroropuvube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9302/5183/files/vofuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5430/0312/files/straddle_milling.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5702/8001/files/38152026896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5609/4615/files/jifizuzaninogimoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7354/9974/files/32685257298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5897/7178/files/981795646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/38664456414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6917/3923/files/paul_bunyan_communications_webmail.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4923/8184/files/70620227940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1230/9671/files/sagomovilus.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_off00005ac8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AC8 5448 bytes
SHA-256: 61a759d2cb9dba8e9ee16a81a4c9ce33f687417305b38d3fe9884374d10e7e23
font_01_sfnt_off00006d34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D34 10500 bytes
SHA-256: c153e24f420d00b3dcc43ce3f1701f2b8f79b0c720b0f065ed44e8c46e9a97a3