Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 499c6c7f9e061de9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.4 KB Created: 2020-08-20 19:11:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d5f243a8ceaded8239cea3730757a973 SHA-1: 3a641da7ee9efe9c8f0fd4387dc678b2544d2bb6 SHA-256: 499c6c7f9e061de9cb2cec1b25149170da6c2275b11c3903a7347cb2df744944
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a high number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body also contains a call-to-action phrase, suggesting a lure to trick the user into clicking the malicious link. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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=angry+boy+status+video In PDF document text
    • http://files.4izon.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407818/folatesomuju.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/1/0428/8305/5782/files/jobijusapefos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7033/8725/files/62467060196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4960/7590/files/87135316304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8862/5316/files/pisomimejezobonizifufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6183/7981/files/xigagas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8350/5570/files/pastest_mrcp_part_2_2017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8539/7152/files/nopurobumovefagoridirefim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7373/1741/files/nigiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8801/1673/files/revixixoxugonide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7157/8007/files/meselasaburedatenunorazeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7710/5832/files/goxefujuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7574/7491/files/87951024738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9301/5190/files/dedogoneguwogegex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8833/9361/files/19102463031.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006481.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6481 6872 bytes
SHA-256: bdeee27b6f3fdebd23c80054e871120672e89c494bfae03318cdcbf718eb61ef
font_01_sfnt_off000075d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75D8 5252 bytes
SHA-256: 19b8df3e36959bf4828058bf4ca48587dee5fb5636d2ab17c6883d2f0a75e1c4
font_02_sfnt_off000087b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87B9 4432 bytes
SHA-256: b11253d531039456c7cf5b2ecac89851fb2fc7e21327afb1bfe9d2af666b1d68
font_03_sfnt_off000098c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98C8 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 673798f6e6903b40463145644b7f74c770263c2a24cf72643cfc7004832396de
font_04_sfnt_off0000bc8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC8A 18624 bytes
SHA-256: bdfd33eb44fb69ce649c75bc0c26d38b36381dd482d4b026ebc0fc13e25e367c