Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 266617e50a1bd782…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-22 01:18:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7fcff4f40048706514bd1cd52c992830 SHA-1: 524b44487bec8fa9a900711a40b70758bb5fe74a SHA-256: 266617e50a1bd782d33c6fd92c2c6e7852e0d20767a0bf4514e1b16c312bb2e9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attack designed to funnel users to malicious content. The document body contains garbled text and what appears to be a reference to the malicious URL, further supporting this attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, and the primary malicious activity is the redirection via the embedded link.

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=leviton+timer+switch+vpt24+manual In PDF document text
    • http://folijes.hanoisweethome.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775403/1719096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jewaraso.d-aleksandar.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856072/7fe695da2346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zipide.mayiharvests.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398140/sudobeduxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.imperialmarketeatery.ca/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969470/vetawidagojimonufute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.1lifetravel.voyagerwebsites.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398131/rebixi.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/1/0437/8243/9063/files/why_does_my_minecraft_pe_keep_crashing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/23342697578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1442/9608/files/nipazinuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6177/2442/files/22158810425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3301/6982/files/jigozemosoderivorofif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/5443/2161/files/auxiliar_de_promotoria_provas_anteriores.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3767/7989/files/grateful_dead_terrapin_station_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2385/9873/files/dabejevojanutonosoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9390/0958/files/class_10_physics_light_reflection_and_refraction_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/33343449262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0077/4308/files/mijajulawad.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_off0000677b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x677B 5488 bytes
SHA-256: 2c6b2fcf7f5b5a97941d7b9ff9fa16f78f86e99a67f080afefb87010900078e1
font_01_sfnt_off00007a19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A19 10428 bytes
SHA-256: f37514a9ec5f5eb2cf7efb8171def35ed64b2a6f080a11568bbb1d4a523e5297