Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6943a48c1589e0de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-07-29 03:40:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bd916a0852d92cfc5bf17e2f4941a80a SHA-1: 326732a6be4819c447ff660d8bb8d6caefb675e5 SHA-256: 6943a48c1589e0de615b7c50d5675738884e218238587b0d57f0b2b028888bbc
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDF files, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of a link farm. A critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution, under the guise of offering free resources.

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=arabic+fonts+photoshop In PDF document text
    • http://files.tristatemaxedoutwomenspac.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437711/3564189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.keyconceptslearning.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814415/kabupilax-zivegixipanonix-sulolonik-nexuzukipefuweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.chrisspaight.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070393/bexasotonorobagarug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thejungleygk.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739366/6202390.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/1/0434/5836/3544/files/bigoxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/96672573922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6563/0102/files/simomivesomotuvuvamojun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1586/3452/files/29268837353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9676/8673/files/60596333150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7141/3155/files/71280810443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5966/7363/files/pujukilivuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9309/8660/files/40887006609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8524/1256/files/88475817320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6129/4757/files/mifuwizigazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3626/8949/files/bijemofegekazesijusilo.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
🗂 Part of campaign: chrisspaight.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000731b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x731B 4868 bytes
SHA-256: 574451846c5c2cddccf4d6f2633dd7746cf3b177d38cfa79b336243e1c4e75f4
font_01_sfnt_off00008386.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8386 9604 bytes
SHA-256: 5b4d2f78ad5562fc6cd6daba4e6b93c07ac6a6c1084a91bd68295575996f57fb