Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ab9b117dbfb12cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-03 17:12:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7f81f40c8ed2de45c249f7e62e92acbc SHA-1: 1362e909005a6d3a4d7e608dd35e74d4b37ad833 SHA-256: 1ab9b117dbfb12cf0cf403890f7b5ce34dcfaef5fb4d6b4e172b41d2109ce39e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=digital+electronics+pdf+books'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which point to Shopify domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to click the malicious link, likely leading to a phishing page or malware download.

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=digital+electronics+pdf+books In PDF document text
    • http://files.kidsaroundaustin.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740880/kupoxorafewizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lvcellc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874050/586220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cigarlife365.shop/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683168/1091842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ucfrugby.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776205/91542e4685ce4f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.charlotte-iphone-repair.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814898/30a8df1aade.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/1/0429/1395/6006/files/download_steven_universe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/3789128943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2004/1886/files/48083281217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0276/4184/files/4274927510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2725/0850/files/pifinafitedemexuxunaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7686/8514/files/parisilepit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9330/3204/files/11259601449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3333/7768/files/binosogenasigafumotuzarij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1301/2641/files/dedelikenexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3024/8600/files/79705394997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8240/7335/files/88272361310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/0262/9016/files/facade_yes_or_no_oracle.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_off00005f92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F92 5524 bytes
SHA-256: 59060c13ea15d95451e4fd543faea9a6b3b122d4c2d964fc58ef97bdeea66062
font_01_sfnt_off00007272.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7272 9956 bytes
SHA-256: 2924856107eb270bd3d0970bccedca710f072dc1abf57fac4a8a088e37424307

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