Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60d50611214c3423…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.1 KB Created: 2020-08-16 21:29:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cbf43569a4d8d7eb03ad140fc97ad6ab SHA-1: eeddcc8169aa7a69c0692568f509194d966f8873 SHA-256: 60d50611214c3423ee8e5766e0ba4bf3bcb46a775357c00a416132687f7aa800
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=report+abandoned+vehicle+texas`. This redirector is likely used to obscure the final destination, which is probably a phishing or scam page. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to improve SEO for malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

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=report+abandoned+vehicle+texas In PDF document text
    • http://files.robsellsatl.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776272/vatet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.listprogramme.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380126/4734388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sunshinecityfilmfestival.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069744/a0366dc.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/1/0433/7798/3653/files/13705490845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2110/5309/files/kufapuseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1588/9305/files/72918751391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2023/7475/files/inspiring_story_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6678/4934/files/dosebumijuvinuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3415/5928/files/botawanagijizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3941/6732/files/kigirubixadiwubuxizelovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5736/2597/files/bcbs_prior_authorization_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7826/2689/files/bawazup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4229/2390/files/4989043413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2793/1029/files/zakivuzume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6802/1141/files/eastern_nc_saltwater_fishing_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0569/6407/files/theory_of_harmony_arnold_schoenberg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8180/1629/files/67425791563.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_off000099c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99C4 5436 bytes
SHA-256: 256faa58eaa7f35e8afd6bb5da2a94f012b214ff30041393ddbf8a00e77baf9b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ac33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC33 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 3dc4827463ba460c032c6afcda396bd1459dc041a6b8386f1685ac17561b72ec