Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f6253f484e9db47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-17 05:55:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 721cb44a4268018fadb9dfa3acf888fd SHA-1: 302531962469b05ef03041a0adb2275895b5559f SHA-256: 1f6253f484e9db478c06082e0f1910499c802a310f0be4d0c8f6fbe59eb4527d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=apk+adobe+premiere+pro+for+laptop'. This URL is likely part of a lure to trick users into downloading software. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links to PDF files hosted on various domains, including Shopify. The presence of these links and the redirector strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=apk+adobe+premiere+pro+for+laptop In PDF document text
    • http://files.m2dsmedia.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681438/zafibagojobomufuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degap.masonmansungkang.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813604/cfa4e8819a179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.prepstep.biz/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740549/a4e453ea50.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xozapup.richlytakenphotography.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682871/23dad811cda66.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.senekal.biz/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455956/biwuwiwexo-powokeroxunu-nitaposiki-situkexon.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/1/0427/9376/2975/files/31590837864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9494/1603/files/17673090100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7379/7285/files/natikegorose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7522/1144/files/apj_abdul_kalam_quotes_in_telugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5865/7430/files/ratajedesegunikivan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0790/9781/files/laponosas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4647/5678/files/uniquely_you_dress_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6372/1637/files/beamer_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8616/7702/files/public_health_act_and_policies_in_zambia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2454/0071/files/8472415836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8610/6014/files/48457973993.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_off000066d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66D8 5200 bytes
SHA-256: d9df11487acf98a3f46ee37d3c763c507f12391883ab5c93aceb55b6b840e6f0
font_01_sfnt_off00007873.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7873 9884 bytes
SHA-256: 0fb3d5419963cd5d1413591e9b94a83ca8d9843910922d14da34d78845eecdac