Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 250cc5b2865f156f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2020-08-23 07:00:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d8b6ffb046685f1685eefa565cd61c04 SHA-1: 083f0fb76869c7287aa6b3678e0bd5c0a0a1b3f4 SHA-256: 250cc5b2865f156fe59248d1657672ad71742cd8e6a566d826292db266b93b07
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com and other domains. One critical heuristic identified a redirector link to ttraff.com, which is known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that is also present in the heuristic firing and appears to be the primary lure. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=definition+of+lifestyle+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.smbdigitalista.events/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636941/papewakexuzezanukex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.exclusivesb.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303269/ce0cb749f6cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonuv.bellacsanders.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380550/1893753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cicelynelson.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775393/sapatubepifere-fejipelezup-jemevewifukubix.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/1/0427/9477/8791/files/nusexusinurulepegakino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8117/9048/files/28262965397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8863/files/50363162543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2492/5347/files/68768087862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5997/9174/files/65630219909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2831/5293/files/78327060855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9328/7331/files/xozuwirijavaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2076/3804/files/zigugemibakija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6339/1894/files/analysis_for_office_2._7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/4094/0708/files/40268479024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8863/2213/files/44135315312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1991/7719/files/java_applet_programming_tutorial.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000086ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86AB 4832 bytes
SHA-256: 72bacfd38e88a50fc9ca73c66f0beb146d3940f6701514088ff48225ddc41b18
font_01_sfnt_off0000973e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x973E 10024 bytes
SHA-256: 9a2ba97ce3a32521b4990123362f37db1dace38e5e10e1c7ea64e68431e7be95

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