Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fe719046d78b7f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-03 03:08:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3e940db6854fc6bee0ce097f61b8b01f SHA-1: 30dd4be94b860211a9389500ae42fc026e242c87 SHA-256: 2fe719046d78b7f9ac75a5d140454fbc65f4f91260fdbc7f4c74e76a182b3ee5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Battlestar Galactica' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to obscure the malicious destination.

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=battlestar+galactica+razor+torrent In PDF document text
    • http://files.riseup-greencity.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637562/bugenidipuxexo-mifokaw-runigape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thepleiadianchild.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452944/bakifuxarini_lupelesi_supetanadufoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ohiomorganhorse.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712093/3071053.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/1/0435/2638/9912/files/bofozobikobiverefaxosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7937/6798/files/75215642481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3942/4669/files/84490423747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/11286786524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8674/0646/files/kizofisefobaxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5214/6587/files/mad_catz_rat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0493/4814/files/72621745172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6432/6299/files/84756481686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/loxidunadubufurepetiverox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0537/0787/files/boxoranogadopika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9672/7957/files/vivewevurujejoliwugeferem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4016/9366/files/sedenakudakesado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8888/7460/files/masozalasixatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7717/9294/files/zinodor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6577/8080/files/25393619188.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_off00005eb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EB8 5064 bytes
SHA-256: a4b40092ac7dac1b4fcf8cf5be7c6c51ab3a288cf2540a44f52ae184fd9f2c81
font_01_sfnt_off00007009.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7009 10148 bytes
SHA-256: ee04f85295dede6486702a9c144a61c257e9355e0bb49192287e8d1ed5b1376f