Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e8579afa7722e7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-08-01 15:24:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 063d185d8e24bcbe464900bca0e5525b SHA-1: 9f8ef658e7448218cfcd87196b968d2befddc21a SHA-256: 1e8579afa7722e7d2e3e4586e000dee814e6dcfae1cf6e6d97084c20f4f577ba
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large number of external PDF links, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=resto+druid+artifact. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to Shopify domains, but also includes suspicious domains like 'donaldtrumpacunt.com'. The overall pattern suggests an attempt to lure users through search engines or direct links to potentially malicious content.

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=resto+druid+artifact In PDF document text
    • http://files.prospectvalleypta.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398308/visarekavepowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.donaldtrumpacunt.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739379/jutovanaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.troliosprint.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606373/21ff22fcc5b3c13.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/1/0429/1559/4393/files/kinefutilabupujoserim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2802/files/lirafinozeberav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9312/1442/files/48257500724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/4155504299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1787/1255/files/84623274043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6845/7113/files/ximokapitegaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1227/5870/files/35472116231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8893/7120/files/lafavugewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6879/8614/files/gonapupisaromo.pdfIn 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/1/0430/7084/9181/files/95201173504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0415/8375/files/lomiwojonapipesuguwago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2353/2195/files/gelefixuje.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_off00007115.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7115 4992 bytes
SHA-256: bc12ed25058dc6eac222b00ac279f814a3d509a9a0d3e86c0ab3d0ce0e3251c0
font_01_sfnt_off0000821e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x821E 9960 bytes
SHA-256: f7ef2cfd083bbfe7fd7a021d1334117452a18c29b87afe16456b506d52c28060