Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5229521fb059102b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-03 10:58:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c33ca66a3e4a430a9665338787773172 SHA-1: 1d8ee96b989163b8420af29947f2bb8becf82796 SHA-256: 5229521fb059102b41618db04f251ba534d4042b58e1b9955c4777cc8d186ae3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirection and a link farm. Specifically, it links to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com' and hosts a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL and a reference to 'lawn and garden', suggesting a lure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=96+lawn+and+garden In PDF document text
    • http://files.peopleripple.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164424/pivirop_gejekuwox_dedopu_vofesiremaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.innovativestoneconcepts.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739895/974f3afa68111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ritasbeautysupply.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712129/9430677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.parentspeace.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738758/17d433ddd5c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.glacierwolfpacktheatre.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163740/sonarixorefude.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/1/0434/6164/0358/files/23137651182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0513/2456/files/dezememulotureke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1931/3062/files/23417278083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5045/8520/files/farafejanebipijawazet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3942/4669/files/bipajilejivekili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5193/3078/files/duforivexolonaxunusujodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5892/1621/files/37604445989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8486/4917/files/22707449492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4234/0007/files/28938481542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6162/2437/files/jipidavimalefajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2841/4618/files/89012630984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5560/2078/files/3923794864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0180/6997/files/70518950989.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_off0000735a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x735A 5120 bytes
SHA-256: c1c29a51bbbdec006b45ed0b5ebabd60d70a15449e009c2eb3088321fd0b63a9
font_01_sfnt_off000084e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84E4 10356 bytes
SHA-256: ab507a3fc1a84b5562bdd031fe02141f5b0b120aa6d403691887a18279b7a4e8

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