Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80a90e065ab1ea69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.9 KB Created: 2020-08-05 15:17:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7a57135b88590edaa994ded1ca271e01 SHA-1: 6768c4c38255b759871e68cd23b6968012d2e1a2 SHA-256: 80a90e065ab1ea69338b3b7259141c0364c1c1728f20c0caecd7e84d99bf04e9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to known malicious infrastructure, specifically a redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a bus timetable, likely serving as a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute the malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=101+bus+timetable+balbriggan+to+dublin+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sinyonshuntay.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637037/fogawupikixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.camptownmarketing.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969322/jogisekopepogupova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.macjannet.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874457/xifipubovigop-xesakinesaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.compositiona.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813997/7966125.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/1/0431/1020/3545/files/66170083747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/97503793953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4334/0956/files/71958292269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8606/7352/files/36644593920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2037/6474/files/dafupakenarapozozusefada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6803/1143/files/bodixiwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6277/1358/files/pededenixokipominufikufag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1021/2518/files/59931676063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4354/4488/files/68423178021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9436/7649/files/vocabulary_exercise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8421/8532/files/82166352429.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005faf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FAF 5484 bytes
SHA-256: 71c4fe3b95211b72c3a32414fdbcc47212f22858c6fa2f114007233b859d4e67
font_01_sfnt_off00007228.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7228 10104 bytes
SHA-256: d3873b250333d69de4c88555c18bf3147e29c770a857d1ef746a6cb94892094b
font_02_sfnt_off000094ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x94EF 16308 bytes
SHA-256: d1f015a84b6729bda498b7383d47f462b397ad4f5f9a76ab3b285b19d547a41f
font_03_sfnt_off0000aa6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA6B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
font_04_sfnt_off0000b81e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB81E 1736 bytes
SHA-256: 74be5bc4d46f64e5c506ae1006f7022dc98ebf960e37c7bf417c2027ca73106d