Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78d09286e1badd4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.7 KB Created: 2020-08-05 14:30:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a8e1c8f0a42b8c131422208c3d935dd7 SHA-1: da5ad7f37cb3f8f38b5b535d401e7322b4012287 SHA-256: 78d09286e1badd4dcefeae468025b478d821d6cc9ff93d72200baa314da10425
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.cc) and a large number of other PDFs hosted on Shopify. This indicates a link farm or phishing campaign designed to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.cc/pify?keyword=joint+pdf+to+joint+cdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.hirotakakasuga.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814043/wuredanobabi-xilamare-rutivakoz-tufiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kisixas.gesamtschule-kunow.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740522/6310500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dalevillecob.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398224/3595968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bioprimehp.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874254/6914273.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/1/0435/5306/3063/files/git_add_permission_denied.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2429/3796/files/xirebav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2331/8686/files/sejatuladuset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3057/6285/files/mefoxebulixefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2397/2005/files/xitekugemaremunipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9740/7126/files/xutoxadobijisebutotele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3001/0273/files/birth_plan_checklist.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1141/5959/files/nobamip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8667/4088/files/abirami_anthathi_tamil_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/79894841610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6004/4710/files/kivowolupifisap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5035/9194/files/vaviriledosuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3273/1030/files/xerumisebebovomaxivujexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0594/1672/files/34951511619.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000081fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81FE 4696 bytes
SHA-256: 0c203d9e81fd95092cdd2b6e6c91c17dd717042ce2bfa4bc84369d1b99fc89da
font_01_sfnt_off00009221.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9221 14500 bytes
SHA-256: 85ecfdfbcfec321215a3895a1c831b3f982327b9bea8e47f7c55d30b044c30ec
font_02_sfnt_off0000c008.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC008 16268 bytes
SHA-256: f2f4e0122114c1816daa51f7260f1c888ba214d5879cb99462a3968212a29bdb