Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9199914d36486d2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-17 05:11:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a58a147c118369f0ec7ae72133aab9b3 SHA-1: 7f72bebc313596bc1105931da44333e30754f401 SHA-256: 9199914d36486d2d56729855ae3772d754b115d8fa4d0c630f0647bf51e748e2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is disguised as a sample email for an informational interview. The PDF also functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous other PDFs hosted on cdn.shopify.com and other domains. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the overall structure suggests a phishing or redirection attempt.

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=request+for+informational+interview+email+sample In PDF document text
    • http://files.nickirutledgephotography.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740978/xotakimasajobe-xogobufef-gizujixekavukis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavitos.lorisen.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384481/7e75956cb45a2c.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/1/0431/5830/6965/files/lubajeledibot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0156/0737/files/romasuguniripojubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5652/9565/files/17477537294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8108/0738/files/sukodabafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2806/2109/files/64677174448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0318/3258/files/58568805650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0258/5500/files/91995214052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7798/2626/files/fuxutosarorizusevemam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0131/4454/files/lizijob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9969/2958/files/jufodelefexowokuvipel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4166/8763/files/xixutalasav.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_off00006652.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6652 5332 bytes
SHA-256: 37b0f12dfd24d19bd42eccb4772ffdd86fd5e04e6b19401b0bbd8c2d7f9aff87
font_01_sfnt_off0000787b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x787B 9876 bytes
SHA-256: cd1ca880e8b0817292010f8d8e80d2351bc8c072e16a7604d49015e426ae8f1a

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