Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cbaf32456ecdf17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-06 06:27:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8089720b4dbf6f2c17b62970848080a0 SHA-1: f7f31f1bd178f95a90a4e3a94f801ce848ae2b59 SHA-256: 2cbaf32456ecdf176484a37b70b637643d45fe1865736e76488de3d2464bd1c7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.cc). This suggests a lure to download a file, which then redirects to malicious infrastructure. The document body contains garbled text and URLs, further supporting the malicious redirection attempt.

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.cc/pify?keyword=bhagavad+gita+gujarati+pdf+file In PDF document text
    • http://files.nextpromotionalproductsandapparel.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815115/95d879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shoplockettlashes.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695543/d6e61c0165f26.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lamarrugby.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739264/zinodofakun-dezokabus-vijevebutim-fobawetusuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.indictrans.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7150/4537/files/98391203162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2327/0042/files/52007098214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6825/2565/files/lagubikabetabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9297/4499/files/copy_command_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0692/4712/files/pawifinibowubumepomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7301/0850/files/babexipumatedegelelevezus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2930/7293/files/rigalanonivomanawuxoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9715/3943/files/90846495769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9456/4252/files/zolulumon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3692/5342/files/gozasugonotokinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1692/8923/files/54140742986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0631/2098/files/footlocker_homeview_rp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8226/1415/files/78151765030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8976/5279/files/zuxupow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6159/9656/files/kaxubos.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000056e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x56E5 5312 bytes
SHA-256: 9a10114fa15db43d7eabcad541cc7b908ee8410dd645da1de08066103a7c6828
font_01_sfnt_off00006906.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6906 6848 bytes
SHA-256: 53e1f6bb595ad98732e10346d8a8e27fc8185384f17ef3d77dcc5254fbe75660
font_02_sfnt_off00007f46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F46 10360 bytes
SHA-256: a51fc97f768cde00b0c570e61039700e8c4aa93d1d78cfae71708dcfccc4c5dc