Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f50bad0f1256530…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-09 08:18:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8b6b25373dd701fa6095f62efe88c442 SHA-1: aba38efbb3505d150135029e1054722a7f690c73 SHA-256: 7f50bad0f12565306cb428fa4ad8fcd74904908a8b35e94f4c127325ad9072d2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to what appears to be an SEO link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=death+of+a+salesman+summary+act+1+pdf', is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other Shopify links, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. 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=death+of+a+salesman+summary+act+1+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://risemox.roundmountaincreamery.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681556/rufavatapeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.the-last-word.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606756/365115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xazoriti.gateways2peace.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/3650250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.weirdobooks.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070842/gakaz-verumexebuwas.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/1/0434/6737/4758/files/moxakefosokazuzaxoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8249/7701/files/aha_2020_acls_algorithms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7759/9383/files/notilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0839/2353/files/terminal_commands_mac_cheat_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9932/4580/files/kenapage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4468/3432/files/gejuxijaxuwutewovaxinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8978/8069/files/burhan_nurgiyantoro_teori_pengkajian_fiksi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6772/8279/files/96720182076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7228/2008/files/jefapevizafowejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8634/7430/files/apostila_caelum_java.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1104/7575/files/begowazexegupesizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6776/0028/files/atwood_machine_problems_and_solutions.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000718b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x718B 5548 bytes
SHA-256: 35194477f3cb43ca627ab1586f45e7f7aecf15e9d9850d24a07e3bd792cec8da
font_01_sfnt_off00008455.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8455 9240 bytes
SHA-256: 2c3dbeca254de0437f69d70c3a9ffe78950ae6948fd22006ab9495e4d4bcbb3a

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