Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e76a2bf343c0601…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-11 23:31:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9a46967507859e83acb3e5fbc502aa98 SHA-1: 79fc78d0916de6c46b770fd7fe2408631b0752c2 SHA-256: 4e76a2bf343c0601b19c7135b467ee5a191ff062480e5bb1b9714ade7df4b7f1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to benign content on Shopify. However, one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc. This redirector is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URLs, suggesting a deliberate attempt to drive traffic to these links. The presence of a malicious redirector and a link farm indicates a phishing or scam attempt.

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=basic+electronic+devices+and+circuits+mahesh+patil+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zujula.vcssc.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381204/zugusowadawewe-rifiwiforokoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.daisiesandchalk.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682685/zatuzefavarogun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.neeleyrealestate.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406291/nijofotejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemopozif.djbendigo.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069934/bujujuwo.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/1/0435/7731/1391/files/raramuzinixodesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6951/2607/files/35434604635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/6791/1842/files/local_anaesthesia_in_dentistry_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0675/3948/files/56147840537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7152/7325/files/70882847415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6413/9669/files/detective_byomkesh_bakshi_story.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4283/0496/files/kubodorusesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2854/4668/files/second_law_of_thermodynamics_problems_and_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/23342697578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9907/8299/files/zadutopak.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_off00005d0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D0B 5504 bytes
SHA-256: e0544ab700922fa1ade2def6e35f0907815cc494df50bf19bed8a65e99e20e51
font_01_sfnt_off00006f90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F90 10328 bytes
SHA-256: e8dd66c75286b737ae06635f42b52d65dd18b399bdb7f5c658f9857f1c02f4eb