Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 410004f4435db8af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.8 KB Created: 2020-08-06 14:17:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c3ad1d1513927a36ca88eea1aa4c2f38 SHA-1: 5ac448435dce8c618e94e1bbc0257ab814e36c37 SHA-256: 410004f4435db8af5dedb5abf48d796878ba997298c705fe2f509deafc79d1f7
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a free trial for Adobe Acrobat. It also features a large number of embedded links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs, likely as part of an SEO spam campaign. The primary malicious link directs to ttraff.com, a known redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the document's structure and embedded links strongly indicate a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=adobe+acrobat+pdf+editor+free+trial In PDF document text
    • http://files.kpcouncil.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606343/dopagomi-wuvagovudu-ramor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hometankservice.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606343/1300860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lanterninitiative.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453355/sabojogitenegex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.marniefanegastudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483305/mobobur_temusumagi_galupekoju_lorof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.honitonforum.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438641/dakomade-getezuwoviwe-takarotuzif-libiludezibo.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/1/0428/1548/8163/files/operations_manual_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9199/3500/files/setodasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5416/1310/files/23232744697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/67572949107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2469/4939/files/dosinorojexaraxifuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1748/4957/files/jeremy_bentham_theory_of_utilitarianism.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1798/4405/files/induction_motor_speed_control_methods.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4827/1000/files/past_tense_worksheets_for_grade_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7826/3718/files/barimajowuzezenujume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7877/0078/files/bofudabevef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6278/0311/files/81968730001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5575/2103/files/durojipun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9900/4831/files/mmpi2_online_test.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000067ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67AE 5236 bytes
SHA-256: 5d76b9f44c5bea5b7d7e65ac1742eb1eef2d0a0bedea1f2c6afd430590136af0
font_01_sfnt_off00007a19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A19 5100 bytes
SHA-256: e7e34e8522a8548354a7fe3fb99e8c703398430ad1d3ac360dadb27ea8d51f9b
font_02_sfnt_off00008b81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B81 10152 bytes
SHA-256: c37a21846087d9cd80bd2bb4ecdde4f12634e4501a54ff768cf07c6cb9e5c930
font_03_sfnt_off0000ae87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE87 16488 bytes
SHA-256: 6a519f54f5516a02950eed31c222a33217e1daf964577f37e3b402c146ae77cd