Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30e67e27f00cbc45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2020-08-01 22:24:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5e5ed46dd0370553c5913da516487bba SHA-1: 4ce6723571d0e7c1d47101758754377f7bee9a16 SHA-256: 30e67e27f00cbc452ae578bfd7dfcfb53c86cc90a0c9a70bfad422f8d72ad4c9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to the same URL and a keyword that appears to be a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious PDF.

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=ravenloft+denizens+of+darkness+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.greaterorlandotrn.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383533/1074f37e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.americansemi.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131855992/jaranaxoragajovux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hollybrookchurch.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398278/6736245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lkoc.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383497/bofepowoj.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/1/0432/3645/8654/files/minecraft_world_machine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9779/2411/files/6536024644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0102/7493/files/da_form_2166_8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7364/2406/files/71867858646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/84113106953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2127/9132/files/international_economics_pugel_16th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9046/9283/files/72064507839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0593/4759/files/jordyn_jones_banji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7441/2949/files/ripazinaleluki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2862/6080/files/3007086817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0677/8777/files/87358629906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7026/7300/files/rugesivakereja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8393/2582/files/luzonolesuvowadubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4504/4892/files/16344040276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3019/7925/files/book_of_vile_darkness.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010b1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B1C 5216 bytes
SHA-256: f25d9720b69a67036fd2b33843a63008db788125a4c6c2b8d91c0dd96cf088f6
font_01_sfnt_off00011d07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D07 16128 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e0e843ae1695f5d605db0f4ae2cb54fd58b58208f56f67471240ed21658c2

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