Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78e50b444377ac82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.3 KB Created: 2020-08-01 02:00:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 979b753d2d2500d09d1fa8b6799a58c9 SHA-1: 91451d5819543173869d11e932ea4177d8d8c921 SHA-256: 78e50b444377ac82fc7a68fea95604c97201d084220ba12c9a94309fcf50929a
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 abuse tactic. The primary malicious link, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=joe+budden+rage+and+the+machine+leak, is identified as a redirector to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other PDF links, indicating the intent to drive traffic to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

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=joe+budden+rage+and+the+machine+leak In PDF document text
    • http://files.centennialpto.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874655/4521385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lohmeyerdesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452861/wudigexitivi-vutimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.quicktan423.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874086/guletut-zebub-jepuvez.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/1/0438/9378/4728/files/suganatujod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3678/7356/files/jitolelomuzasixazewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3064/2837/files/48017867116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3314/0127/files/zeweretufifijogewamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6054/3138/files/92234017027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7230/7875/files/zosisogedapasesej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4900/0864/files/kujeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4615/1078/files/80180247099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/49816413057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2964/0854/files/68945494278.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006a08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A08 5248 bytes
SHA-256: 3f9b8cba9382f33f444c1bfbe49031329f5b4d9efce22520a715aa82a6c03f15
font_01_sfnt_off00007ba2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BA2 10000 bytes
SHA-256: c647eb8ffe421c4c8a03913543e0701257862e12b552cb80cc30277e1578e089
font_02_sfnt_off00009dd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DD4 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176

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