Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f469bb16b4d8635…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-07-31 21:11:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5691c99c9e899d4b0f91ae50855923e5 SHA-1: c29f1f8b8423c270cbda2e30b16b93142ab18337 SHA-256: 2f469bb16b4d86357a55164c272d69138bdef7fbaf445a99a90961b8fc351999
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=mongodb+docker+compose'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external PDF links, many of which are hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the aforementioned malicious URL and a benign-looking PDF link. The primary attack vector appears to be directing the user to a malicious site via these embedded links.

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=mongodb+docker+compose In PDF document text
    • http://files.miralamira.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775556/7695245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bakedbyalice.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740012/gigevogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lakeside-kennel.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383456/6039803.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/1/0427/9985/7823/files/murotafepez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0638/5576/files/kukefuxavomixeveluwusexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7122/5494/files/fisef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4074/3330/files/zuzivaforasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1873/2191/files/titutelim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5055/6821/files/fategoviro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7426/4993/files/wuvijewenewabas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2650/5128/files/87849668296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6335/3250/files/26892676533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7735/4143/files/vevibidovidazinerorir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4897/6032/files/97465117844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9878/3382/files/41165445221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lalosukiwafigoledexefes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7719/8229/files/77654197352.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
🗂 Part of campaign: bakedbyalice.co.uk 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000064b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64B1 5360 bytes
SHA-256: e7b80b93650baf3e94e7f2b3d9271b3eb3740a97d0bfcefb383168013955aafc
font_01_sfnt_off000076e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76E4 12404 bytes
SHA-256: fc080a58bfd93e22882090858ce857c4b51e708b0cbd6506a493f14a5bf2976f