Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25d66aa26e32963c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-01 02:08:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3df6fef873be66e67d0d2bfcb1ac7d7e SHA-1: 179d6de5a30920f706978c84d6ae64b1662d0804 SHA-256: 25d66aa26e32963c9d69ae949213a1c270c88a88ebd3d915192e555262a7d8b7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Hunter fan thermostats' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or scam page. The PDF structure itself is designed to host a mass of external links, likely for SEO poisoning or to obscure the malicious redirector among many benign-looking ones.

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=hunter+fan+thermostats In PDF document text
    • http://files.randirouge.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408537/7877400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.belleminks.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775321/tuvela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pressproofcartons.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814465/pelojedanokorirafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rachnabisht.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636956/jevinede-januwit-debod-wozudolesoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thespiritualcentre.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776267/kodixoze_rezuliravij_radesuk_kurinudibe.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/1/0431/2032/8864/files/vubabonidavimidizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0942/5056/files/38971302189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/80023348890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0533/0083/files/sigenolumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3891/4213/files/matotuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8970/5625/files/43218503450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0645/9032/files/46668871323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1306/1277/files/93697398755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6784/2465/files/rakojixuludodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6670/4550/files/63388872467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8339/8310/files/23570764028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0160/8353/files/betuxoponubunole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4127/5547/files/vokusogujeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6579/4965/files/67592846199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0903/2863/files/nebitiginigipaxik.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_off00006904.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6904 4936 bytes
SHA-256: 81a1bdadee5d3d6beefe91bcb11ed5c6c52e83ca14cc4686d8da2ae46d596409
font_01_sfnt_off000079a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79A2 10028 bytes
SHA-256: f38024dd9cb4db0b25cdc797ca6e350cc53892191a8482d18e55958560416210