Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2db4ac34dc24665f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.7 KB Created: 2020-08-07 04:58:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c47839f63d4c7e2c3a49e096edcd679c SHA-1: 2d44ad4d0afafe869b4791cce32532298144ba38 SHA-256: 2db4ac34dc24665f03cf6b465d2b8242306975dfc28a29329950381eebbf7147
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF contains a large number of links pointing to a redirector service, which in turn leads to various PDF files hosted on Shopify and other domains. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=reference+evapotranspiration+pdf. This pattern suggests a link farm or SEO scam designed to drive traffic or potentially deliver malicious content through a chain of redirects. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded links are the primary indicators of malicious activity.

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=reference+evapotranspiration+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.breastfeedinghousecalls.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740357/1305561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinenis.asimpleido.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738799/0c1c7b16dac664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tomknx.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739488/c5a5e663e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leginedu.globemarineservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636948/xivijixujevoxibefot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.topqueensbeautythrone.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636889/napik-sijipisazo-guxufutoparopa-dovalomu.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/67062005494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5783/9254/files/3603107738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0049/4237/files/labasijikored.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4959/9651/files/architecture_working_drawing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1478/2104/files/csd_canteen_smart_card_application_form_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9578/5629/files/50143527816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3382/9277/files/dekigaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9948/8410/files/58624413319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/0187/6377/files/97_nissan_altima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5815/7982/files/sexomumefijomepetijita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5650/3704/files/22818791009.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_off00009da6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DA6 5184 bytes
SHA-256: bbbb96c933d41fcc683d6dd34affe9cf570e65677c45b0fdf8120698ee01b749
font_01_sfnt_off0000af6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF6B 11480 bytes
SHA-256: 0edd28860927a65262310865644100ae74fa5953552b46d1658205e4678940f2