Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93d204ad03fee397…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-23 12:20:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1a88a7b487ea3e054351ac4b4ddb65b0 SHA-1: 6b85e4c527aa701f73e37ef60b417ca84759b9c3 SHA-256: 93d204ad03fee397d664f4ffb533866c50cabd9e9560a6c6f6bf7c957e0b155f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains numerous external links. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes this URL and appears to be a lure related to a 'fishing report'. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com', suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially distribute malware or conduct phishing.

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=fishing+report+coyote+lake+ca In PDF document text
    • http://jikuwe.ndglc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437318/6f1e636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oakfamilycounseling.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606789/zimejad-refaburakesimef.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/1/0430/5341/6601/files/xevikosogafiwijikopona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7432/9507/files/62008461008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0487/9267/files/bollywood_movie_mkv_hd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/8697/0779/files/kugoxarewisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/2123/0233/files/saponovevesukagugiludoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5004/1495/files/mojovifurutegofewefewesog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4841/8973/files/61807460098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/0981/9043/files/avery_dennison_zweckform_office_products_manufacturing_gmbh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8220/9698/files/pdf_biodata_format_for_marriage_for_boy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6910/3528/files/74980437450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1174/2628/files/47205624215.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_off00005e9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E9F 5316 bytes
SHA-256: 3238a53ff242d5827295b1e9235a1ab10ddaf03e1de0948d33db2fe04df24d97
font_01_sfnt_off000070b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70B0 10624 bytes
SHA-256: d1b0e319ae36a9311c5a5325c9892a2203f38a4b33b475f69baa51e960e48651