Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c0f487fa0acaadf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB Created: 2020-08-18 14:47:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 72b3517f3d367a378bb68f3c6d3a787d SHA-1: 12466add195ffd968f9cf42330d609f73a964efd SHA-256: 2c0f487fa0acaadfa46ee7b02415500ac9ad6876a456447d3e813cf31b8a372d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.com). The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same suspicious URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious redirector. The primary attack pattern is a link-based lure, likely intended to lead the user to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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=transformers+studio+series+29+deluxe+sideswipe In PDF document text
    • http://files.smithsoundmusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814208/nekefux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.newenglandelite.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453989/difakebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomedugik.jenniferschweitzer.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740596/vitogel-nawemume-zufelibenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jmenterprisesllc.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739718/3756183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mexixuw.avikw.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710797/8721624.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/1/0438/3742/3776/files/modern_cv_templates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1057/2967/files/bagugugepumixibukagikedox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0510/0707/files/57531279011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1285/7754/files/login_page_template_php.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9226/1529/files/electret_capsule_datasheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8065/5775/files/kowadifegasor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9554/6273/files/56146006976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1530/6405/files/56360037333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8867/files/zepade.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004674.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4674 5464 bytes
SHA-256: dd94ab77a44fc0801635db0c8739b845fad9aa7fbdd1033a3c80d3abe07dc5e7
font_01_sfnt_off000058fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58FB 9376 bytes
SHA-256: cc9779635091b9178e7e36d91675eb99a8c09d91764d3a1898dcf2071df07532
font_02_sfnt_off0000790e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x790E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230

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