Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 970bd36e69decfa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.5 KB Created: 2020-07-31 00:58:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4111b0447971a8c3aa6e6f7b24fb67de SHA-1: 0aa9a02e4c2305bd431b628bd5eb56e3393309d5 SHA-256: 970bd36e69decfa9ba96967351e7ea7da60dd8dc6e93ee89295ccfeb884f3e02
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF SEO link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs hosted on shopify.com and other domains. The embedded document body text is heavily obfuscated and appears to be metadata rather than user-readable content, making it difficult to ascertain the exact lure. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a malicious link within the PDF.

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.cc/pify?keyword=arcsight+siem+training+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.fiberenvy.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710772/mijagosoziduxazazimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cpaforfamilywealth.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775868/075bb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hogriverhg.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775970/9134134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mindbody-solutions.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453917/a4bd0bd5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.quantummentalfitness.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681660/putevine.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/1/0428/5405/6092/files/95346392585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9229/6358/files/nuveledazufadumesoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5035/3318/files/vifiwafevupumafobefut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1600/9374/files/13724454469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2100/9053/files/fapawigobipadixekuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7624/7967/files/fedumidafenebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4802/4741/files/44508413790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2438/4154/files/84795113577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0664/7717/files/63664934928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tobilefoseparavako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8466/7287/files/melapitod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9469/5329/files/40572506313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6567/0806/files/41832150385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1754/3588/files/61368631224.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_off00009edd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9EDD 5204 bytes
SHA-256: 5003305cb2b2cc7fcbdded2807179bfe36d82f2b6d799bf43790aee5bd561a15
font_01_sfnt_off0000b05c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB05C 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 995e29fe70378f0a378af89cd074fcd41dbf05ec7b2a3f7c8cfd3e3651b21588