Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17a0d75072ce614b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-08-06 19:02:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2c9302fed088c7ec205b61b96ace421c SHA-1: 21e490a93992f327084cbe49f5d7edae99ee762b SHA-256: 17a0d75072ce614b9bdc051ee885dda06135068e59c2af6c63adb6ed6e761358
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) and a large number of other PDFs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the title 'Difference between arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis pdf' and the URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=difference+between+arteriosclerosis+and+atherosclerosis+pdf, reinforcing the lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the link farm heuristic point towards an attempt to drive traffic to malicious or ad-heavy sites, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

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=difference+between+arteriosclerosis+and+atherosclerosis+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ruthnadiamassage.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874050/dowemawuxekavojuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nxtgenerationenergy.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740415/sodegebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alaskarvadventures.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681336/fdfd3d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.quieteroahu.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738553/tojak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.debadavis.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738848/wisexo-ditilerexoleb-rukuzo-dugolezudoxa.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/1/0431/4493/7628/files/comfort_colors_swatches.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2106/5640/files/profanations_giorgio_agamben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2530/0647/files/mips_to_binary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3760/3478/files/poxabagizipibobavevukiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1030/8765/files/grammar_questions_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7420/8419/files/10494974623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2668/4824/files/97428561945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5214/6586/files/355516781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1403/7397/files/disappointed_face_meme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/7530/1539/files/genetic_algorithm_neural_network.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6612/9574/files/sozobidawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0755/7275/files/80211894128.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_off000068f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68F3 5472 bytes
SHA-256: 256c7be01459714915ebb9c5c60d66207d789843195fc34f8ff3ee2b0058c656
font_01_sfnt_off00007ba1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BA1 11020 bytes
SHA-256: bd7ee7ae9bd8a17cbf543f829973676531d67c86e44cc86ddc16a89ea7bea495