Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f9bc1075a8c84db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-12 17:30:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 01303a39db53cf8bcc88651da50f79bb SHA-1: 6b3b2633ced13a522c453c239e76900e6d4360e1 SHA-256: 1f9bc1075a8c84dbc7533c6962113f029973311adc3a035852867a61ad4c1ac2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document contains a high density of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to `ttraff.com`. This redirector is known to lead to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Chaos theory textbook pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The presence of numerous links and the redirector strongly indicate a phishing or content-scraping attack.

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=chaos+theory+textbook+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.benwahrlebaseballparks.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680986/kijutodadoneb-rumijevumebataj-tadisulofoxibek-maxowetufom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gupigimud.glennmehrbach.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437402/25494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.desertratfeatures.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775370/jezolake_zuvuzu_vupizumidozona_suzakew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lutzlearning.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813413/6330971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.islandreach.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856134/8507946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3880/2073/files/lajikovemaxefenevuxikewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7118/4794/files/29040118030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7388/0739/files/aristofane_le_rane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8613/5961/files/46898264965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4261/4945/files/clipsal_e3000_catalogue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1905/7822/files/ranoluketajirejivazulet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3847/4397/files/85988197667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7886/7354/files/read_tsv_file_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5650/5756/files/24335970548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7257/6922/files/lixeguluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4615/1078/files/mimetanokutumovuxisurezu.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004cdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CDF 5128 bytes
SHA-256: 41411ad9ab22d012a941a9f54430fc063c5cb22518b6b889bc8b35a9f022c266
font_01_sfnt_off00005e6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E6A 14360 bytes
SHA-256: d3fb31275b6c7a5c985f39078ed8481c7113d0a50692b10634dd2400af89472f
font_02_sfnt_off00008bc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BC8 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3