Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b39e80fc475ba85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.6 KB Created: 2020-08-17 09:07:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6ba1c5231e24622debe5c7e990120145 SHA-1: 18c845d528199d2453eebaa3af6c1235814dbe99 SHA-256: 6b39e80fc475ba85100fd0770821d296e34294202f0acec43dfe47f711051a41
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to an SEO redirector service (ttraff.com) that is known to host malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that is also present in the heuristics, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of multiple Shopify links suggests an attempt to disguise the malicious links as legitimate downloads.

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=cataracts+pathophysiology+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mdcsmith.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969469/7fb01d3fb51.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/1/0432/6260/7520/files/gipiwepefebirobewujoselaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6400/8605/files/candy_ke_word.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8621/6344/files/87973232155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7922/7810/files/wupusotesulemoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3429/6988/files/92740303934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2032/8853/files/73634488417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4847/5541/files/nagoxamedominamejoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4796/8149/files/ffx_cloudy_mirror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3554/1151/files/best_thesaurus_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7431/3621/files/minor_cofactor_and_adjoint_of_a_matrix.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_off000059fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59FC 5424 bytes
SHA-256: 3cf2b25ad4118d2a697da797cf9914fda48f2dc23f72044ab3f480c1a719d46b
font_01_sfnt_off00006c66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C66 9832 bytes
SHA-256: cb8a769943573fe397e3ab9026840239dc7297440aa34df1537c8a8f20011d8d

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