Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1efd63c451948c41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.3 KB Created: 2020-08-23 17:42:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3cfdfc625cabb62643df2b1a0d5cc24f SHA-1: 86e84bbb1c5de74635a2adfb52b4d448dcb9eec9 SHA-256: 1efd63c451948c410504382089e6f13d84a4f73bd1d17088c4df6ee42b21c244
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, forming a link farm. A critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to a BTS photoshoot and the redirector URL, suggesting a lure to drive traffic to potentially malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL analysis indicate a phishing or redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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=bts+love+yourself+answer+photoshoot+s+version In PDF document text
    • http://files.idyllicliving.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873855/mexurarogosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.richardellishair.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969061/d909b6165a5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.just4youtreats.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406893/gukazives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spiritualfringe.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775866/xawewiwibew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4143/2487/files/rengar_build_s7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9304/1053/files/98004491496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4693/4430/files/42540197184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3422/0456/files/3206983309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0741/8273/files/livro_de_agrometeorologia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5352/9753/files/lupevejekerobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2784/6552/files/67966518523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3756/2779/files/cambridge_igcse_business_studies_fourth_edition.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000051e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x51E4 4096 bytes
SHA-256: 1ad172f25a16fbc70e75665a74f71253dd714e9273c4b776a377ea9718b32e8a
font_01_sfnt_off0000606e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x606E 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 2ef301e7946874ad3fb23fa36367fd09b8563f6b5fb8a9b7091ac5e130cdf4a6
font_02_sfnt_off0000727f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x727F 1984 bytes
SHA-256: b510c529800d5d440e7be8423cfc673bc2d8ccc75e8eef988a02e6f344cfbe40
font_03_sfnt_off00007bf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BF1 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 4f601cee73a4b9ab0b8169048c11c28a8bb0eb63ab0ca06d376e425b8f0ef9ec
font_04_sfnt_off00009fa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9FA4 16852 bytes
SHA-256: b482232ef79762c691d84f71f59dcededbfa18f69e90926be576c77f0ee50992
font_05_sfnt_off0000b7d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7D4 1932 bytes
SHA-256: e2f50d5f4e3fc2e46405e9f934f61f85e6ad4dd4f1a71686478313b05a5ff7cb