Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d1bf16b923e8c69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.7 KB Created: 2020-08-05 23:20:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5c2cfca3e6244bcffb9ea3c6befd23c6 SHA-1: b02bbb4be01e43fdf93b3fe9d52a5889d4330773 SHA-256: 5d1bf16b923e8c69ad2441cd10d36f006f10eb98540767817fe4cb35b2408921
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links, including one to a known malicious redirector (ttraff.cc), suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and several Shopify-hosted PDF files, likely part of a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=amplitude+modulation+applications+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.htcatholicschoolmyrtlebeach.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069781/jeriwepadivebu_momasidaxifizem_pitukikinewu_toluvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banod.dignityshouse.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775387/16a87f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zanati.spencerclarkphotography.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740435/xikoju-zufebovikatena-limelined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wijigeji.gpsafety.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740836/koxepurig_morujepux_xisajimekena.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/1/0430/8942/8637/files/calibration_of_weighing_balance.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9378/6791/files/5748603874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5107/2158/files/51987809053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6681/7689/files/80526481042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3975/0294/files/bojiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1992/7713/files/19950977897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1281/5008/files/20486663306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8831/3506/files/35059882997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9200/0406/files/48094551866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3998/0710/files/giresazesipuxometebelukaf.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006d9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D9B 5196 bytes
SHA-256: cd15c52a0a412b73cc8beedd1ff51de50cb95f355b5b5b148c24fcdea0865a54
font_01_sfnt_off00007f31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F31 1596 bytes
SHA-256: d915b4c88dfdf60cdb32956bab26f2e5031be282031ae5e7e96d84eb7a97fb75
font_02_sfnt_off00008749.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8749 10432 bytes
SHA-256: e5e49f191833bc1a214cbb7c0f35a9f504d1ca38956f8d9c0e8ccdcc6a29952e
font_03_sfnt_off0000aae4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAAE4 16400 bytes
SHA-256: 5d8d726b7924626b6582eab718e65b9af01522c6da373b3dbc646370f5c181f4