Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31d9daf38ae28e3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-01 05:04:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5cd44f3faf0884d7da1f2862e016f149 SHA-1: 8056cae0f7ebc64e362dc04fc9cc3f14f2c236bf SHA-256: 31d9daf38ae28e3ec09921071455a8397f78cef80dbcb7549fdcba06c94fdfad
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM'. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=2nd+edition+d%2526+d', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body contains garbled text but includes the same URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of numerous links, including the malicious redirector, indicates an attempt to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites.

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=2nd+edition+d%2526+d In PDF document text
    • http://files.dixielandbulldogges.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383889/062cdaaf2a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jaxcpaa.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069870/cfcff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.skippysfrenchtoast.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775734/rijepidokasewama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sarabrownart.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637374/07f7ee0736ec26.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/1/0438/4253/5581/files/8141515468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mobisibat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2579/1138/files/50248808522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0679/3627/files/67805601094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0625/4504/files/kafejowido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0710/6462/files/jojoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9171/3447/files/2829324328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0654/8377/files/matlab_cube_root.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7247/9647/files/35729920915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7039/8372/files/ludogebezigikezugejowinoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6785/0390/files/sagilaxabeweresever.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4235/5865/files/farezopinajusilavuxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7152/0409/files/91826906734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7520/6294/files/11662129354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0500/8293/files/91359455585.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_off000073be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73BE 4340 bytes
SHA-256: 54342b4bc76722b991f09d421965c1615461851455d7b7bff7cb1a54cf5e54d5
font_01_sfnt_off00008294.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8294 10548 bytes
SHA-256: b7e3601633387a065f1541cc18204d9aef831f60121a7308669434701df493d7