Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15ebd4160a69b2f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.8 KB Created: 2020-08-06 06:39:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: da02071218e2370b19d784ccd7bd6853 SHA-1: 107e8ffca6379b4fa4186f9b0597dfe69b076860 SHA-256: 15ebd4160a69b2f9f610defa8a4c9c5c72accd694552d2de15b5bbc13d1c3030
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing for a redirector link to 'ttraff.com'. This indicates the document is designed to lead users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to obscure the true malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of malicious intent.

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=muatan+dan+medan+listrik.+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kirav.velaband.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739024/bukurefas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://felunofo.helenmccreery.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379803/wemivogel_fulaxati_xewipunoxum_diropuragop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.homescholars.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738696/zimirimuzen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.biggsbassethounds.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857071/84fb7a2093dbc.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/1/0433/6022/3397/files/the_good_morrow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9080/4893/files/53179077014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6263/1326/files/wakisuzasijitomoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8602/8708/files/backstepping_controller.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5208/1053/files/proletariat_vs_bourgeoisie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8858/4605/files/sacramento_tv_listings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5064/7204/files/29178155895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7087/4009/files/nutilajudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1061/2635/files/69636376823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4738/6262/files/essentials_of_investments.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2816/0420/files/pdf_of_a_beta_distribution.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5032/0543/files/61951544841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/0326/1606/files/binging_with_babish_cookbook_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8689/5522/files/eugene_oregon_hourly_weather.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_off00006552.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6552 5288 bytes
SHA-256: 0b9ba9a596012b80a4690771a882366b1e87dacaa24eddef17f9a84f8a00fa76
font_01_sfnt_off00007745.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7745 10964 bytes
SHA-256: f8978a564b149985558b7bc9dd4814029281e8f09ea42d6dda5660d67703490b
font_02_sfnt_off00009d09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D09 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 36e88bcac3f6702aa4285d6728274dd395a9fa8df4856bb2973d73c9e8333829