Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69afb44e01b3277d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.8 KB Created: 2020-08-12 08:38:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6ea2a67e6679bd645fad3108f8b187d1 SHA-1: 00df4209e431114d0ee1bbd407e3c55de005975d SHA-256: 69afb44e01b3277db62ebed3791f3d38ef9e52a49ebebea770d60c7696e06cc3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified as a redirector at ttraff.com. The document body and embedded link objects contain numerous URLs, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting PDF files, likely as part of an SEO poisoning or link farm strategy. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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=campesinos+de+los+andes+y+otros+escritos+antol%25C3%25B3gicos+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.graphictechgroup.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740066/3592396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.friends.kanemiller.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380107/1372089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.zalzabik.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740429/572bfba6b7.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/benubojebexoreloruva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3329/7058/files/catalogo_price_shoes_urbano_otoo_invierno_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6212/4959/files/movamemutal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2247/3624/files/716648107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8365/2506/files/suzumitigarirum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2610/3971/files/gefadikuxumigumavisupopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0475/5096/files/786597867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5008/2202/files/4202397107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0202/6393/files/39021237701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0897/4235/files/57703508869.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000068f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68F6 5524 bytes
SHA-256: e6a5f1086d61ea48e7ad7f2287ff2130e47ffa26cc4455cbb05b1810cff086fd
font_01_sfnt_off00007b72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B72 11524 bytes
SHA-256: 213aa433712fa743e606a74c11ac6d9aa4756b23b956fa5e3e6a967d76638d95
font_02_sfnt_off0000a124.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA124 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f