Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55122b97741d562b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-08 04:44:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c0002499f45ab5dc1fcac02ae905188b SHA-1: 3d93cb80807d12a733ea1da8c187a1d8671f032a SHA-256: 55122b97741d562b3cd07d416825176ed41cdbd81b22194a9ec5b39802b5d094
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a large number of embedded links. One of these links points to a known malicious redirector service, 'ttraff.ru', which likely serves to obscure the ultimate destination of the malicious payload. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and appears to be junk data, but the presence of numerous links, including those to Shopify domains, suggests a link farm or a lure for users to click through to malicious content.

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.ru/pify?keyword=naughts+and+crosses+online+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.frankmarcopolos.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710797/fimulu-resemogus-gevenanivuxeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.turtletracksmaui.us/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452876/da4399480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bampilates.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438741/1940dcd9a51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.georesource.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814758/1057ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.teashopyyc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483154/3983702.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/1/0430/9850/5377/files/ninubetipewajizodilafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0427/1524/files/korafamamodubaneligid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4654/1211/files/55275774786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9889/7574/files/tukalikuwebigodob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9989/6475/files/kinukuwiraxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3355/8168/files/23627247315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0098/7801/files/3268329328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1908/2651/files/37981859793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5167/9898/files/aws_certified_cloud_practitioner_training_material.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8027/7406/files/74915835008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7503/5541/files/dobexuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9201/7305/files/80426149641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9180/2777/files/jazopapodetixapininesoro.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_off00005aa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AA7 5388 bytes
SHA-256: e9f1d088cc35f62faeaa67a9766797ebccf202812ee9949289e0ed594ddfe130
font_01_sfnt_off00006cfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CFC 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 03637f703335524d4a74746492ea87d2686f3b4a9c8fd2ccf67a549b0b59dd23