Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36e7926504826fff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.9 KB Created: 2020-08-17 04:05:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 47ea84a14cd6f91ea6c7f8e12eea8d9d SHA-1: f8ab95bc16c1640743a413ff0587b7f8f5fdde42 SHA-256: 36e7926504826fff75dbf206c5f86651ec04f1b6258b51afa4daeb13d25f1243
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a mass of external links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same keyword as the redirector URL, suggesting a lure. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' confirms the malicious nature of the redirector. The presence of multiple unknown URLs further supports the malicious intent.

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=cursive+writing+practice+sheets+names In PDF document text
    • http://xozuk.bioskosmoschurchgov.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398368/bofafatates-zawekiwizo-sawisit-pikezuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soluz.durrellodom.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/zumijal_nokulaz_lemukam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.santafefilmsguide.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969965/gakukitubetet-lufomome-vofebedanajobid.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/1/0432/7538/7043/files/istvan_banyai_re_zoom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6100/9818/files/jemumufefabowuwifigow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9249/9877/files/vinunulejopelejagamukoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6919/1832/files/breaded_pork_cutlets_nutritional_information.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3773/6603/files/nigiroxipeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5959/3894/files/xodetewijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3963/8179/files/31348390125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5335/1066/files/suvobufusileponos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5083/5876/files/fefigulisuzebezajof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6885/8276/files/bijalefanegokukibavidogas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8091/7926/files/lukalunufepajidivarolikad.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_off00005b6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B6A 5372 bytes
SHA-256: 3ed2b5d13d9349539f14416c6abd33221b9f020d256cc4d6aa6a6c849acb2aef
font_01_sfnt_off00006d9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D9B 9708 bytes
SHA-256: 06654c906e7f1a104f5d9f9d21d04b0b8787665d04cc2b1db169e735d44b214d