Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1be275f9e95b1558…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.6 KB Created: 2020-08-08 01:14:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3d0d44b6b9427386e9acdcf33cb8ae77 SHA-1: 00148e5c8c347b674d510f9f9824da1d8cf681a5 SHA-256: 1be275f9e95b1558e45f1c1378de706e3e13a246913b9e32bcea158a600b83f6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Magento 2 tutorial pdf free download' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=magento%202%20tutorial%20pdf%20free%20download, which is likely used to redirect users to a further malicious destination.

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/wb?keyword=magento%202%20tutorial%20pdf%20free%20download In PDF document text
    • http://files.pittsburghighschoolband.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739726/mafitovinotiluba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ccsasoccer.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871556/9124699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.joeksmith.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453028/7c68567b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.painting.zone/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856166/xupoz.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/kividerinogofigizunewif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0933/5715/files/23682288097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1778/9862/files/98057865301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9026/4742/files/57162062633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1560/9243/files/90739160235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2322/0392/files/47326682218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6727/5424/files/c_int_main.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8296/3349/files/gotaler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6055/1070/files/roblox_asset_downloader.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4786/1928/files/27833243310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/71052884609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3733/3406/files/negenizasak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2399/6840/files/nekewudejegog.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_off00009831.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9831 5260 bytes
SHA-256: fc2380c7d06bad633853b4df5b88ac6599957661ae5ce11a88dffb1aa6e58708
font_01_sfnt_off0000aa4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA4D 16464 bytes
SHA-256: d564082fdfa2086ab1c3e97f63c990dc9ce76226f5e39a2a30dffe61de3318a8