Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ac783b04d2e3d17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.0 KB Created: 2020-08-24 16:42:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6568e25948ea6ff327972588d4339a15 SHA-1: 60f8e8f25b56a3a013f11f82b497f9c538635328 SHA-256: 4ac783b04d2e3d17eae7903f263bea5d963d53bccfcdc2491d43cfbf32822a4a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same product search query as the redirector URL, indicating the document's purpose is to drive traffic to this malicious link. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links are sufficient to infer a malicious intent.

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=rustoleum+cabinet+transformations+light+colour+kit In PDF document text
    • http://gokuzedi.bbcvbs.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857920/gabosorakamiluji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bearrivermn.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397987/1da7cdd42578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fraserscarfe.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163559/mudolojemirovedetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.k-sportsmassage.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164456/fefapuputum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.engineerabull.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683003/mebinig_lasozenirodu_rujekipoke.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/1/0431/0820/4704/files/woriwusufagevip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9373/7118/files/idsa_candidiasis_guidelines_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4438/0578/files/lubeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/7330/0632/files/number_theory_nptel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3782/6973/files/tagumalopumip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1048/0533/files/avengers_fighting_game_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/11411440246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4423/9510/files/principles_of_chemistry_a_molecular_approach_nivaldo_j_tro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4179/1895/files/68951244754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5593/9733/files/46577603190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7232/3737/files/18559449348.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_off0000500e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x500E 5504 bytes
SHA-256: 5632c249a8a36045c26ab87167eda9e476ddf77b46e0830d0b2473d9da36b0a4
font_01_sfnt_off000062a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62A2 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 5cbede99a499b42a6d2bb780e5f76787e0774ff6a37bfaa2ffa53a83d2f768ed