Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 499c7115655d6c2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.1 KB Created: 2020-08-06 06:43:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a1d840d53a4bb4f7983b12b2034b2130 SHA-1: 2066819539f4140e98deb8fbbfd240698f9cbc73 SHA-256: 499c7115655d6c2d9afbdaa8b4e0bc4fe91311c567485e7b08f27ac77bc6dbbd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This URL is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous links, many of which point to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation to increase visibility. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector is sufficient to classify the attack pattern.

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=brothers+grimm+snow+white+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.hypnobabiescoloradosprings.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681851/7443406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.prideofpa.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406337/kolonoma_pogenerebude_tidako_vojulenujegowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mrsnow.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453902/kafasefejigufe.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/1/0432/1977/9742/files/22303253180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7650/9080/files/fonorixova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3279/5541/files/pong_python_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2689/8344/files/71679150879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6601/5396/files/atmosfera_terrestre.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1227/5870/files/80666083405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9647/3749/files/zogogurafekata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4804/9572/files/american_english_file_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4253/7629/files/40360089120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9345/9093/files/54793170915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7547/7416/files/4308052183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3236/3676/files/73813260005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6888/3106/files/nipuduloxewosilelogewaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9888/9621/files/suragegafewugo.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_off0000b263.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB263 5352 bytes
SHA-256: 6de92c33541c198d17eba1a13a22b4560cc34fdc1a3d174b4232c7a65706b548
font_01_sfnt_off0000c488.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC488 10220 bytes
SHA-256: 3bbdb71c344025995f1453697e2b0ee15b000574e42dd17d976fea0624ac63f0

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