Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14ea2573ee7c54bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-22 12:50:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 139b89580f1bd83114051911001f29ea SHA-1: d9dfda66dd767aa2129cee28bc341de004a4358f SHA-256: 14ea2573ee7c54bbcebbde3620943f5f885a4d37a35a4c925c4c21a1a6210d06
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of a link farm designed to improve search engine rankings. A critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is used to obscure the actual destination of the download lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and other PDF links, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

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=autobiography+of+a+yogi+pdf+in+kannada In PDF document text
    • http://gapoto.redwood4h.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969525/nanuva_xofol_zurobuxelupete_jodidabitito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.marketable-mama.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163578/gilet_kogazevomopobaf_womowede.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/1/0430/2392/5402/files/22578182749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3757/9674/files/minecraft_frog_skin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5618/4996/files/divesibebizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8353/8331/files/43770861095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6516/3422/files/17233115180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8116/1111/files/gigitofumoralulovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9532/6887/files/janodakenapebakuwiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6365/7119/files/oceans_and_seas_of_the_world.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6422/1077/files/autocad_2016_complete_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8625/6030/files/sheetz_corporate_office_claysburg_pa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2045/1997/files/divumajuzibuma.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000061fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61FD 5388 bytes
SHA-256: 50e752de77af348f2bf4299484ae244abb995628e447109006a65128c6620748
font_01_sfnt_off00007450.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7450 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 624dca6a55eaa7580196a0d2dce94f2ccab9e696f612516de881ab1bf37f8280

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