Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a973fbc9ed7c2f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.2 KB Created: 2020-08-04 05:43:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ba59593bae083fcface4bf3417ee0a2c SHA-1: b0ec6f56ddca841bb43177e44b5d11af5fc42645 SHA-256: 5a973fbc9ed7c2f95dca9be63b53f88d0e12faaf863a2b14d3440e21ef6b7e49
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of an SEO link farm designed to attract users searching for specific document types. The primary redirector URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=fundamental+of+accounting+principles+pdf, is flagged as malicious, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful 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.com/pify?keyword=fundamental+of+accounting+principles+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.cliochris.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857626/549328e961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.marquetterecreationaltours.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164387/6972053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.va-homeinspections.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739779/wakelibap_guzojulupanow_papimoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rhemayoga.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814676/vigimirobilupefeboz.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/1/0437/3096/0549/files/zupisotokupugalesazuwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8099/1395/files/bosasofisufaxukajesipif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1769/9477/files/54278099328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1871/4264/files/topafixogapelavufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9018/2297/files/6384695012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2510/4028/files/analytical_and_logical_reasoning_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9866/9220/files/disav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6403/3429/files/vovagibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/54748680829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9007/4005/files/78475564054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5809/4495/files/siwopurirot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8144/0168/files/sojox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/42820491308.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_off00008e32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E32 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 30b3714665e78c7b17f7487feba999a336562c2c113d4cd4172dfee6b80cd6bc
font_01_sfnt_off0000a099.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA099 10392 bytes
SHA-256: a5906f9a6e98fe1389dc1c907ea9032f897a8d1f8bb680c1f4954a627cea275a

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