Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30f9731442fa6aef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2020-08-23 20:44:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6627db6cbce0d1d17bfd662cba3976dd SHA-1: 480a16ba9459650e365721fe797b66d6d8592a66 SHA-256: 30f9731442fa6aef1f2e1b47348e783353c0b0d21ae49ddddc6d9dbd93913819
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing indicating it is a malicious redirector. It embeds a link to 'ttraff.cc', which is known malicious infrastructure. The document body also contains this URL, alongside numerous other links to PDF files hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or redirection attempt. The primary malicious intent appears to be directing users to a potentially harmful external site via the 'ttraff.cc' redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.cc/pify?keyword=h%2526+m+uk+new+size+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.number1hair.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874582/keduvasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pajoje.visionsusa.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406893/sotawovuwafu_sibetodokadef_situso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koloxanis.edistotitle.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814407/xogapubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midage.lymeregisu3a.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741508/lizisaforefeloku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nasun.mimiharding.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969242/cf2f0ee6e.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/1/0431/4326/6458/files/634499977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7180/7391/files/77137427373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6132/1634/files/26848593367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2651/3048/files/zapefefez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2668/3816/files/braun_silk_epil_5_5340_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4040/7701/files/connected2me_hack_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0532/0088/files/mcgraw_hill_kindergarten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0004/5469/files/juzevinupagowezilesajuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5550/4795/files/sosujimo.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007983.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7983 6864 bytes
SHA-256: 174831c7bb76443f9dea19cfc9e7796a4252dec10f1493946e2c49ad4ca3aecc
font_01_sfnt_off00008aba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8ABA 4116 bytes
SHA-256: 948635edd72bd6aa00a6cc0f327222f42bf50c4532717ab3bfc1c6ec4f1c0e72
font_02_sfnt_off0000987d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x987D 6268 bytes
SHA-256: e9bf09bc0faebf1c09b3275fde27552166d973311126d96c266f605ed6d07bb4
font_03_sfnt_off0000a7ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA7AE 1768 bytes
SHA-256: c304dd3b5d4db65567b604495c65a84ea43f9b78fb81738f3d0db8a002142223
font_04_sfnt_off0000b077.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB077 17328 bytes
SHA-256: 101343b30da3ab998740fa6565fe7d7015bc01ff867e18c48d55e30f313eb764
font_05_sfnt_off0000e49f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE49F 16520 bytes
SHA-256: e9da21f007d7521fcd1c994b82c5a00510b5c2ff14a72228948c7770d66335b6
font_06_sfnt_off0000fb37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB37 6580 bytes
SHA-256: 11b5ec23a93cadeae3c37587dce00a7665fd758a92dd301120ef9bba75dd69f8