Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7592ab82a2a72e67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.2 KB Created: 2020-08-19 16:15:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c08fb005928d9e8ecd9b6e4b3fe7bc07 SHA-1: 7d5c125980175a580901ee950071972ab97382cf SHA-256: 7592ab82a2a72e6712b5ca6b17c81c7e9139b25aaeec36488e089068b2a0e5a8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic indicates a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.com', which is also present in the document body. This suggests the primary goal is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=autobuses+jimenez+horarios+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ritafixa.howigotcustody.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712380/satufudejegumu_betaniwavujelov_wijed_waforigurulis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tchancellor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453256/basedaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navibe.selftalktherapyservices.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969541/e0303cdfc1507.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/1/0430/0183/9775/files/23833423760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0681/9493/files/85194564762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8383/2227/files/french_german_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0580/4698/files/11043515311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2717/7365/files/63749317208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2651/4077/files/52566782673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5864/0549/files/what_is_the_color_of_discord.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1464/2074/files/prokaryotic_cells_vs_eukaryotic_cells_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/53551688275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/3400/4891/files/aflac_group_wellness_claim_forms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6164/0352/files/air_pollution_and_control_notes_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3720/2344/files/55123449467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8874/8452/files/gatopaxigoxotob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4538/8442/files/50960423683.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000050f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50F8 5504 bytes
SHA-256: 7993fcff374084745a569442507b91fe824f14707416b1faf2b34ab62633c57d
font_01_sfnt_off00006383.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6383 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 8236d6b47bcdeaa819d2bba6638bf9c7c466aca4dcf8a72f565243a2c423fc1f