Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1baec30c93a37162…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-08-20 19:49:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 712759c99fd0c4dfdc45e4ea6734eb02 SHA-1: 0b1fd684527853932211f292d006d8e1d31b1f45 SHA-256: 1baec30c93a3716230146b01437955de4c55c64c1eaf5282d52dcd108f01f893
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=sustainability+reporting+guidelines+g4'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other Shopify-hosted PDF links, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. The primary intent appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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=sustainability+reporting+guidelines+g4 In PDF document text
    • http://files.limitless-potential.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856076/9d2e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nomsieswoodcrafts.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856065/gimale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekim.themalagarden.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871721/1787853.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/1/0429/0890/9734/files/bergmann_s_rule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8617/5651/files/xigujamifedamutubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2095/1450/files/32021391234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5458/7288/files/tufelonuvowiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2505/5387/files/bar_rust_235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7194/6398/files/32196366384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1238/2117/files/12787036144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/0010/3834/files/chupke_chupke_song_ming.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8938/7939/files/felisowajin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3685/8773/files/65412963260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2729/2582/files/exam_master_may_2020_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/benubojebexoreloruva.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000607f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x607F 5440 bytes
SHA-256: 30577a899a252d737c23e676914417a5111d7134da8a74258dd6bf156f39fc6c
font_01_sfnt_off00007300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7300 9528 bytes
SHA-256: 16837c2b414cd0db40dc603227a31271a597565c161e1b89aa5af46b7ac8d058
font_02_sfnt_off00009395.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9395 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176

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