Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 684685606a49c595…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-08-24 10:45:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1adb67343551d3110e7718c7824347e8 SHA-1: a811bb73380b4dd99f4ec11b6ae650c1204b0a4d SHA-256: 684685606a49c595e347b6bbc787ff757487c793d504d5dc67edc9407269ad14
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of an SEO link farm. The primary link, disguised as a guide, redirects through 'ttraff.com', a known malicious redirector, to a potentially harmful destination. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple SEO-optimized PDF links suggests a phishing or scam attempt.

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=how+to+read+capacitor+value+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.activealuminium.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969889/7563218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gedix.toledopresbyterian.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409236/7573600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.barkavedeland.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775084/vaxajijotuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2432/6564/files/93016340524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4095/4778/files/76089775053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9614/6073/files/cursive_capital_letters_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6913/5262/files/epinephrine_hormone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0355/8564/files/ratchet_rake_amazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7315/8806/files/qualitative_data_analysis_with_nvivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0899/1140/files/20732211825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3237/0584/files/85246182962.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000063d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63D0 4860 bytes
SHA-256: 913e8a1f66d73aeb7cb2247c6ceac98826e7068500474855e83037b7bec2a8e5
font_01_sfnt_off00007484.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7484 9768 bytes
SHA-256: e3609f977c15710e033e2bc69c55b0fd411010a3d005f0b00b8c00b1ab028606
font_02_sfnt_off000095ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x95ED 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361

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