Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12e51f31f4285b8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 23:09:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: be15030693a4021e1a88ee5c36ece5c5 SHA-1: 70fd920b39952aba66fbe8e13b22843e8bc59bc9 SHA-256: 12e51f31f4285b8e4cf4c2277dd17f84f2735f65f43da13b032898f04c75ab49
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt, likely using SEO tactics to appear as a legitimate download. The presence of many Shopify links, some benign and some unknown, further supports the idea of a link farm designed to obscure the malicious destination.

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=fungsi+kurikulum+pendidikan+islam+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.elikalnonwoven.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814208/2d41ec9126ebed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ballyhoo.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453944/8942757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.iepconsultingwithcatherineevans.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776674/2155339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuriki.harchumanservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453850/kiwafajomulorase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.robertsonbookreviews.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302963/95b71dc93406cb.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/1/0429/0805/7759/files/sat_math_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0792/5654/files/dosifapogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9299/2410/files/99768665677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7100/5082/files/zuvesibobusojedivekariroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1864/7709/files/zufijifofirizetutubuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3050/2806/files/kuvuzupelireronuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2388/3688/files/21106015552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2778/4099/files/70935751742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9341/7366/files/88151932711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6590/9160/files/16053523779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0484/6503/files/71555067345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0622/9654/files/48816242516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4353/6541/files/gulixopopozezinara.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006884.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6884 5380 bytes
SHA-256: 918b9980777f1a5e606218c0c4398b9add9097ec1406de793a34370046b3d9ea
font_01_sfnt_off00007ac3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AC3 10216 bytes
SHA-256: 205e473a12e82dbe37f185ec88481f066164393062758b6f764179661b2201ee
font_02_sfnt_off00009d92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D92 17660 bytes
SHA-256: 6177ca0e5fb383ee308574fa73dc3abd8d34af958d0ddfdf28782e04b496bb7b