Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1621d0fe452e3acd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-08-06 03:34:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 377fe4400d23d7920aa26210e33c5192 SHA-1: 88f1fc2e82844db8513a29efaae6067bbe170465 SHA-256: 1621d0fe452e3acd03fe27a5d3c0e06bea4ac73178757db56b6ccbb761d37694
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to a redirector service designed to obscure the final destination. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=before+i+let+go+book+pdf, which is known to host malicious content. The document body, though obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other Shopify-hosted PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to lure users. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=before+i+let+go+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.bridgettempest.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606222/9367962d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.isinglassriver.us/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398350/199f0cea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hogsandairdogs.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406507/zikaluguzudijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.universalmatrixhi.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776225/b8c3e.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/1/0434/2261/3654/files/76546395492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fakuwonilojovaxibudebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7895/0810/files/lozofixetala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2036/1629/files/22079498042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5534/0954/files/online_to_word_typing_jobs_without_investment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6021/3398/files/91403893782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5996/0218/files/gavuzusevufibovowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0342/8510/files/zagisodegek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5463/6966/files/39657724589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8022/8757/files/52547158425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2525/3023/files/surazazugenazokurulutuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2210/4229/files/bank_preparation_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2259/7796/files/lapabig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1342/2753/files/sujovivilajikesine.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_off00006f63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F63 5076 bytes
SHA-256: 55b75736ba567310048240b9a2b455c3f91daa697396e2ba2ada9757e0d22636
font_01_sfnt_off000080be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80BE 10240 bytes
SHA-256: feb408a3d0e9e258f8481f64ac01815ba7c7bd9e9a98fef40dcc074f2438b75a