Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19fb1c3b54166412…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.9 KB Created: 2020-08-08 20:25:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ead0611c3b06faf4c2d6e510d2ba9042 SHA-1: 8ff11aa9b353d9e6fd9f6e825319d041747ff6fb SHA-256: 19fb1c3b54166412f14c43e71755338aeac42f410f32be03650218192175ae58
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links to a redirector service (ttraff.com) which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that points to this redirector, suggesting an attempt to lead the user to malicious content. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO for malicious content or to distribute phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=occupational+safety+health+and+working+conditions+bill+2020+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.auerservis.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871642/1313510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rosieduttonphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739533/8896061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thedancenetworksb.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380756/saseti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6974/4028/files/94910497104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0935/1578/files/abrsm_grade_5_theory_paper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7795/8816/files/64166785396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3929/1554/files/zofajofenef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5711/8374/files/siwotixoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6767/8618/files/big_ideas_simply_explained_science.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2675/0359/files/asvab_afqt_for_dummies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tinoled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5724/9430/files/sukekapodivexegov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/tuzow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9378/6791/files/43413473786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4741/1096/files/kate_voegele_hallelujah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0617/1048/files/78300972590.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009188.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9188 5996 bytes
SHA-256: 902c5646d87053edd22baffdf2f07a4cb4c61b5b2b79a1fb0a0ff53e0b364975
font_01_sfnt_off0000a5f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA5F9 9812 bytes
SHA-256: c33b2265d99101408710a5d3f5793682eefcdfad6513558de42165015e7d62f1
font_02_sfnt_off0000c77e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC77E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176