Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19e3ba5538f5f23e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 01:47:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5babc7f86150fc1b0845a22c740efada SHA-1: d30c822895715714c63196066697f24103e4bd4c SHA-256: 19e3ba5538f5f23ed0e19fae339f9fe4b9bb23efa9274ccae4c6e6714bda773e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggered the malicious redirector heuristic, indicating a lure for users to click through to potentially malicious content.

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.cc/pify?keyword=free+perfect+attendance+certificate+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695200/fidune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.iwfgeorgia.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455883/dofez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dyaelkelley.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681479/3914420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.interlakescommunitycaregivers.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710569/307325f.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/1/0432/5349/8019/files/jazumojivuruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4104/7206/files/pixefufesif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6681/4617/files/can_i_search_a_on_my_ipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3153/5524/files/21707356077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pepefawabibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4983/5930/files/74074133530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7670/4664/files/oracle_sql_developer_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8565/0325/files/anorexia_y_bulimia_trastornos_alimentarios_rosa_maria_raich.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0027/3830/files/velidexowegosotosazazinan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4519/1841/files/aditya_hridaya_stotra_in_telugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5080/3099/files/madilosatomixozijuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0608/2717/files/duguwejuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1010/4228/files/80694695993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3177/3852/files/6490798568.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_off00006cc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CC1 4896 bytes
SHA-256: 41643af0cef18e4fdc36903cc3157138bef669bb6763e078e17c30098edad001
font_01_sfnt_off00007d7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D7C 9748 bytes
SHA-256: 3762927a238081875a5dc2827ae32090353adb3a9e06cf91eafb621dfcaf2fbc