Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 482191c1f87921e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-09 04:53:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: acf6129c72120d5e1f39c5e85af1b072 SHA-1: 6d528d9175a505acd5cca0085ada68c878fef22a SHA-256: 482191c1f87921e8024851fe59f9ad88e7e8a508a6475f21cfa45722ffa0d6fe
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a link farm, with the primary redirector URL being ttraff.cc. This infrastructure is designed to lure users into clicking through to potentially malicious content, disguised as PDF files hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this document.

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=capelania+hospitalar+espirita+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.630shistory.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776401/zonikinukitevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hungrylikewolves.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874678/mivatonidosagun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.iconbiketours.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482886/6922958.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/1/0429/5095/1066/files/95840486863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2670/9665/files/the_abbasid_revolution.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2254/1209/files/xebagakosofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8283/2280/files/national_literacy_learning_progressions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9875/7538/files/65741837367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3905/5253/files/75405454684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2843/8427/files/89262496022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4029/8392/files/xenibejokakugevetewogenup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9907/8299/files/wurebodemedizeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7258/5888/files/electrical_installation_risk_assessment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1975/4907/files/87538728247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0766/2504/files/vebig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4760/8730/files/bawiguwidokek.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ffc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FFC 5032 bytes
SHA-256: 66b0ae2c6196284ec9d310b8d3097ed2888c170f96402416490da9134934f5f4
font_01_sfnt_off0000710b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x710B 10036 bytes
SHA-256: f9b5fdc57d0eb30170f9395735599b533f19e560adcf7bfbd8e270e4c5ad7bfd

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