Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68f0069796bad830…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-09 04:46:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5332d2edc3fc75c5e8f2687084d42e2c SHA-1: 4f30408fc09be0942304dab806992f8b1940bca6 SHA-256: 68f0069796bad83081d4d2ceec4d8762dcafd1e24874854242222eb9b264fa9e
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 lure victims. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=statistical+analysis+book+pdf+for+m.+com', is flagged as malicious. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and references to downloadable PDFs, reinforcing the phishing lure.

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=statistical+analysis+book+pdf+for+m.+com In PDF document text
    • http://files.lyndahiggsphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437322/1c28b9d98a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cofallenhero.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740517/46ce7aa420e70.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.paulcolmer.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163976/ae5f6.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/1/0434/1959/9004/files/85354510642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6473/7448/files/katurumuxelik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4953/4111/files/wejoveja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2947/7014/files/21497983908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2791/files/82546663400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8091/7926/files/jojabibaxemimoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1669/8526/files/loparoxuzifufim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7147/1767/files/kozoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4389/8019/files/roxijafogagig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9889/7574/files/26453869508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5731/4977/files/gosizefatoberapidawogu.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_off000062e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62E7 5740 bytes
SHA-256: 841d53043959158dcffde44809fd0d7f0564c345e3febfb8904b3d46c8f0c09a
font_01_sfnt_off00007664.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7664 10600 bytes
SHA-256: ad9e6bc82cb416a569ac0f165a1d94743cb5010b4f5278128f5e98f389fe4272

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