Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4aeba7460465c6f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2020-08-09 10:42:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 66b1ded70c60c0069356193e015689f2 SHA-1: af6bab91fd9bf7090c81dd3f526618ed4fc9b0e6 SHA-256: 4aeba7460465c6f877e00e8005ddaaa25331d0cf4f2914f3651c80536386db25
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, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.cc). This suggests a social engineering attack where the user is tricked into clicking a link under the guise of a hardware catalogue. The PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic confirms the presence of a malicious redirector. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates the PDF is designed to host numerous external links, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=hardware+catalogue+design+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wadoxul.blackpoolrockandnoveltiesltd.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303189/wawipovun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.recruiterwritten.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438353/pozavedudun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.josephskowcasting.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453278/sebeponebegufuk-pamobagitegufos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.caryyurkiw.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408798/4760443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dlsequestrian.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813846/eeef824af58f.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/1/0428/6716/3302/files/jipilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9282/8579/files/70058494938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6621/3031/files/dejanezezinidezisogatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5655/4394/files/dukajatirowovifudonad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9145/2314/files/merewazamex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6598/9528/files/89471179347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2469/4942/files/kodiwebezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9156/6493/files/mixutuvixudojur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6859/5112/files/wedefimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7985/0397/files/canada_immigration_laws.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4642/1158/files/new_holland_parts_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9502/4025/files/93013379740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1763/3949/files/mufupososeruro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7567/4014/files/jaxir.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_off0000549b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x549B 5376 bytes
SHA-256: 46b40e8182d96d687e86e91e56357959c04b7eeb74ca9436694f2e1df9eb972d
font_01_sfnt_off00006708.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6708 12892 bytes
SHA-256: 252339c5547491931cd4201939cf5053c9c975226f7a69c9e7713d793c3226e8