Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 191a026e275e2342…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-07-25 13:27:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0d0fc30d9d9a876c90cdb00ad027674a SHA-1: 3b73afdcbc636f36a534bcc67e2486f8f95b1f20 SHA-256: 191a026e275e23420846704c5e52ebb3e41c4faecc6bd2b65d18b6339afd0b75
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com'. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the redirector link and link farm structure suggests the primary intent is to lure users to malicious sites.

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=le+yield+management+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.rebelrustictexas.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438658/vipefupefugafuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bethgrabowski.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695445/acefaf1a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.soulelectricliving.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695633/lavosuwoxevokafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibuysfv.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163736/4c8df.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/97503793953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5313/7576/files/74149914149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6703/8106/files/lugegibeluvuziwetelebabif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4100/5480/files/mivozusab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4638/7362/files/58357027966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7230/7875/files/83348313024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9426/8320/files/25700073989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7387/2807/files/81904017133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8365/3527/files/melifot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7220/0608/files/44306283963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5619/3955/files/majoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6772/8281/files/10069531478.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_off000071f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71F2 4808 bytes
SHA-256: e70a60de9c7c1c7eca015beb7e38cef8a57f5e9894bcb5b001e6241512960ef5
font_01_sfnt_off0000823d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x823D 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 161c4a1252c4fd295faf58d058688f46ba57b32a428f40d9fc759c487fbe3a4c

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