Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30658afdc7e16825…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-08-01 16:31:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d222f3f01cd0b0f45a276f91b302fec6 SHA-1: 5bf19cd0ba449c5aea84f4bd63eb8ce197e264e7 SHA-256: 30658afdc7e16825043b60f818c1eb0dccb6272301ce256fe6b1006905f21013
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) and a large number of external PDFs hosted on Shopify. This pattern is indicative of an SEO link farm or a phishing lure, aiming to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=kriss+kross+jump+lyrics In PDF document text
    • http://files.ivlounge.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437330/97382ee29.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tommytrenchard.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452811/kinapudivugako-nonokev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.schuttvision.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969154/dc63f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cragglaw.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483307/1726821.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/1/0434/5973/9814/files/nuneladuderemapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9932/4580/files/finajelisenogimazax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7789/4293/files/65191378837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9121/3988/files/tiziriwinanijazizuzumidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8607/8369/files/vuferanufupinoluporisepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1961/4882/files/xumuzexugeropo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8868/2915/files/55857388678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5428/5479/files/jofosoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3474/6790/files/tiruze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6045/3785/files/17749261367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9915/1768/files/weratovobepopineriwelos.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_off00006bb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BB9 5080 bytes
SHA-256: a15e2e1ce9326de3b963bdb6d1e25cbb1d91b10e830fcfdf3739234d7bd3fbd5
font_01_sfnt_off00007d03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D03 10548 bytes
SHA-256: ea71e7e9de8f4b58738dddbe2eaf0bd3503c007e3122a343a5515fade4f680e7