Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47e777feb1a68923…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-05 04:57:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 34998cc6530da4ec49b39a64bc949f51 SHA-1: e1022e578fbe38a52e7c3415f298ea59938b4f63 SHA-256: 47e777feb1a689237c11c9b24eb6746a36cc7528f187a01ed119d64663b82bd5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and contains numerous external links. One of these links points to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely used to obscure the final destination of the malicious traffic. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content.

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.cc/pify?keyword=phonics+sounds+list+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.alohatherapeutic.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606697/0bcdfea29.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.maigretfamilyfarm.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453194/3318523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.whatsupwithmath.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681625/3143423.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/1/0433/4357/7256/files/20851339628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4868/1120/files/vixatuguralu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1330/6530/files/xejawegarawutujabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0663/1833/files/born_to_run_tabs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1157/8776/files/vasabusavusafofunul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0197/0837/files/sadinibidarijutepeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9445/0078/files/59451649023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7301/0845/files/jawetarodatubeliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8697/0021/files/narapibijifexanusu.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_off0000622d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x622D 4936 bytes
SHA-256: 1246bbb625658ff5d616454aee89a58dcaddec64543c389a0311ade9966537ba
font_01_sfnt_off00007300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7300 10088 bytes
SHA-256: 1453caf939b1619e9bc14d3f4ef71978be87949bece7d588c4b37c0b69dd3112