Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14d01efd47c3a6e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 00:55:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a9b87a052c75df97d80c6c92b0dc1513 SHA-1: 7762a09c12dd09946b581bc841d73c0e5963681d SHA-256: 14d01efd47c3a6e478b77311a4375b9dd4262e06695ab0bc5fa851302d135403
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains multiple embedded links, with a primary link redirecting to a known malicious infrastructure at `ttraff.com`. The document body, though obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'Amex priority pass enrollment form', indicating a phishing attempt. The presence of numerous PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to obscure the malicious redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=amex+priority+pass+enrollment+form In PDF document text
    • http://jenob.meshtheatre.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740414/3435492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.76bulbs.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382078/jusolapotikage_tovenuzo_gamexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tobuf.ewoptx.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398367/74cbd.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/1/0431/8684/7903/files/97019786577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7870/4536/files/55318492177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0212/6755/files/bibamobatuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3347/5737/files/zumigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5657/7182/files/sesogesamof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8652/0224/files/dictionary_of_aerospace_engineering.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2020/5726/files/52376722891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7920/5013/files/bisod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4717/4822/files/jafefefuwomodirevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4056/9494/files/jufowofofibudovavumope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8197/4435/files/31074663091.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_off00005c48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C48 5204 bytes
SHA-256: 8f09662e3e0d20007ec9541209e262a21bccc4e490622ce61065972acf16f2de
font_01_sfnt_off00006df1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DF1 10224 bytes
SHA-256: 34bed0774afcb5ab0e70e388f8fea6d11c1d52b700c3955c03259766418ddbcf