Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bf892c0fb33ca1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 07:50:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e0e00adc3bd2d61697b47708016ffe59 SHA-1: e65542d0cbe54b66018b569cda6561db891f510d SHA-256: 7bf892c0fb33ca1c00c9ad0527c0d985d3d6fb9c021e4506bcc32f5d4a583e27
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to an SEO redirector, specifically 'ttraff.com', which is flagged as malicious. This indicates an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of a large number of PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=ejercicios+numeros+primos+y+compuestos+pdf+5+primaria In PDF document text
    • http://files.lmcakebylisa.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681378/zukefikijebeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.s-cta.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398419/talekelozanasa-turudavoboki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fijianmermaid.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813528/3632766.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/1/0437/7437/8138/files/fusozimida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7836/7897/files/literary_devices.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4247/9007/files/best_practice_book_for_ielts_writing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1143/1838/files/31850487506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9522/6523/files/89941242857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2510/4028/files/self_organization_and_associative_memory.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1050/6404/files/71662593984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7394/4217/files/qms_lead_auditor_course_material.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5398/1594/files/getawobutovaxakawugetutob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8620/8406/files/43307920362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9508/1635/files/gitenap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0115/9575/files/21777758715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8468/5224/files/turaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4297/1553/files/dobemogubazazilulabo.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_off00006f38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F38 5528 bytes
SHA-256: 131461e696f502230a662afd955793528cef76d275e03394c6066ef1e881bef3
font_01_sfnt_off00008202.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8202 11104 bytes
SHA-256: ffb4f1f916b429988b334ee1d929c2005e50311ea3a93b0645e69595ac2a8a4a
font_02_sfnt_off0000a64c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA64C 16312 bytes
SHA-256: bf8f9ece8d9d74ce2d7a98a07ee1bb8f4056faf702b3b1702118181e85f1b939