Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 575070d9a2e16f07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.1 KB Created: 2020-08-19 07:03:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a42aef47a58225ec748f823f7b244cd1 SHA-1: 5d151e09db93e4e726a820d183cd0dc23bc0758a SHA-256: 575070d9a2e16f078b988ccc46f8fe94b97ec30567839cb6e2fc1e4ad84bdcb4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a travel guide. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious URL is 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=japan+eyewitness+travel+guide+pdf', which likely serves as a lure to a malicious site.

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=japan+eyewitness+travel+guide+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.the8thcountdancestudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813998/kubab-ganubufu.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/59022585862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8050/6791/files/97160836871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7259/4844/files/49583129119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5848/7703/files/6546423602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9439/2485/files/accounting_principles_and_conventions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/4077026649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5528/3366/files/bodybuilding_meal_plan_bulking.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5180/9942/files/41573511076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9586/8067/files/95114282062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6885/9303/files/son_of_ultron_empire.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_off00004fbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4FBE 5452 bytes
SHA-256: 3cfd6ce6d5b21d84d778130c7d295e9fe3e029a1ef818f7e57eb292b92d51223
font_01_sfnt_off0000626f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x626F 9792 bytes
SHA-256: 01bd3931be9154582225ec9c86a3c9df0bff5bcc5cf6a6fe82346d79c862419e

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