Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c0ba5c1013b6b6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.9 KB Created: 2020-08-02 17:04:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f1bcd33c0c64d85b58eec75a6fc59d54 SHA-1: 05cdb58c0fda8aea4129ae4b5d4c8bf5fe3b94cf SHA-256: 7c0ba5c1013b6b6a6e400cd270d56eaf342db81df5def0baa108a5299665eb63
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. This suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a large number of links, including those to Shopify, indicates a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to increase visibility for the malicious redirector.

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=donell+jones+where+i+wanna+be+mp3 In PDF document text
    • http://files.collisterunitedmethodist.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637546/fefetube_foronu_viranarif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.2018eradreview.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740277/e3d7dd9923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rebeccalynnphotography.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874518/4840188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.benedicthillshoa.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814666/dbc60c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oehlermill.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408280/9091110.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/1/0429/1395/6007/files/30861688406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8548/6485/files/16425071316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8935/3118/files/70127082971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6980/9564/files/91058827624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2359/7725/files/the_macro_economy_today.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3016/8230/files/73521724362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8393/2582/files/79823349416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9565/2504/files/guwofitasukusanewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6974/2999/files/siladiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4409/1557/files/bupawosefopikitav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8343/2096/files/fadeluw.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_off00005097.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5097 5528 bytes
SHA-256: 74f202972dbe1c8e53a811e1a165e37a81556fae90f49eecae9bdf6bd9ed43df
font_01_sfnt_off0000634c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x634C 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 8ca019afbf59af23c298cc91f33a4929f125ff514c5078e959ec259924cb10e7