Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ce8f02767ffa791…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-12 10:52:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 80ff2c3930dea188ebfe13e568a85fdd SHA-1: d5504dc50a2307d25ac3f6a5afdc994b70398ee7 SHA-256: 1ce8f02767ffa7910832cd983fa23d2321cadde01793f5dcb8999ad7b69a5a2e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure. No scripts were extracted, and the PDF structure itself is the delivery mechanism.

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=integration+of+inverse+trig+functions+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.cbconwy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775912/woropez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.blackmarksproduction.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871658/1535363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.portraitsforpits.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163740/tidixazivepog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thechristianrepository.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776239/lululi_vupasililudej_rakuz_lojeduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gurid.thealeutelder.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/giputunepemupofored.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/15125842299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6693/2902/files/mazunanubakefosiwuduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5461/1102/files/48461743860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7249/5526/files/anemia_adalah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7958/1352/files/65753305287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6825/2565/files/anatomia_topografica_de_cabeza_y_cuello.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2132/6742/files/runex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6255/0940/files/leriniforoviripepiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4795/0248/files/types_of_antihypertensive_drugs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9199/3500/files/57124532234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3826/0899/files/ps_eu_ainda_te_amo_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2846/2233/files/netgear_nighthawk_mr1100_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8014/5313/files/23439958058.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_off00005cb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CB1 5288 bytes
SHA-256: 1f051309d5d0b045dc6849eb61ccfa9ab82d8c555163fd914c284363a1c1edeb
font_01_sfnt_off00006ec2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EC2 13372 bytes
SHA-256: bde85e6084ea1d1c357148dd05776ab13478bc88a1366747fcb4583fe91eb5b4