Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29f1450a9d3236f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-05 22:52:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 41bad843caeeea0c06025b4dce435c95 SHA-1: 3256c3e82671f232499f1b4c73eff09ed021743c SHA-256: 29f1450a9d3236f7d55a7d1de0628e638496aedb26201fc432593c8d7e980c97
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect the user to malicious content. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDFs indicates a link farm designed to improve SEO for malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=aviation+week+space+technology+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://didine.mrisar.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874633/putivedepav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.my-english-lesson.us/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380687/4165684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaguwis.anetamigas.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407818/xakoliro_zuvajumiburak_rufajasexexika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lorraineparishwriter.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873870/lobojixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.etnomusikologiusu.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398281/barizun-majubiwaw.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/1/0429/0645/2131/files/gopemoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0138/6920/files/memubudugidofozupuxowugef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7375/6572/files/ielts_general_writing_task_1_sample_answer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6689/2191/files/nimagef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2630/0575/files/65698375922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0833/4744/files/addition_and_subtraction_word_problems_year_6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7229/8913/files/25668858922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3164/9689/files/zipidedusamavugoweweresu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3247/6838/files/ipc_a_610_acceptability_of_electronic_assemblies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5199/9637/files/legitanafaxevafagum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6174/7605/files/46301634361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2008/3612/files/70112848394.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_off00006f21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F21 5628 bytes
SHA-256: fdd3ce407bd212a3158e30557a2da71855a990fbc0531d375c65bf6e9acf1f09
font_01_sfnt_off00008279.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8279 10600 bytes
SHA-256: f400290bfd4ad3ff3454434b513335541ceba728949308e8f4f450da995456e2