Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e37ac94e29ee611…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-19 03:53:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ae96b07937a350e320a3ab1aacf12ff9 SHA-1: 115aabc0cf8499ea1e755eb32b5fd28f708082c7 SHA-256: 5e37ac94e29ee6111632c2287d45d0a37f433981f2b4c897ae86baaa37c7f72f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to SEO-optimized URLs designed to appear as legitimate downloads. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.cc', which is used to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and several Shopify-hosted PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to the malicious redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=ordering+rational+and+irrational+numbers+worksheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nofufi.astiquesalon.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/8772431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waronumod.drisabelfranco.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739897/d583b43eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In 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/1/0438/9493/1624/files/nergies_marines_renouvelables.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5850/2563/files/fusobafibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4891/9450/files/nuxurijedexefixisabujub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2511/9904/files/vipabifajaberuxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3292/0732/files/33080005508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6640/6550/files/5897185568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1883/0492/files/tibonodijukarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5891/3689/files/54024531686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2191/0687/files/96649061840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5201/4495/files/usa_tv_channels_app_free.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_off000052be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x52BE 1964 bytes
SHA-256: cafc66053d53eb8e3277a25bdee2e7701b17d43b20e552da9cba7d884a1a5f39
font_01_sfnt_off00005c0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C0C 5776 bytes
SHA-256: ca63221b4bee41caf9a822d37f7b9456faba385c0a67269ae088fa55e9547a3a
font_02_sfnt_off00006f9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F9B 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 17ab2078040001a115a1cf73095b4399a76838f02a5900bed57f3a237b9ccc12
font_03_sfnt_off00009389.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9389 16144 bytes
SHA-256: fb10e5badbbf29d6a05184c763452604a6d256f7c208a2bb674868c670b14a78