Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99806ab93e474e7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.0 KB Created: 2020-08-01 19:11:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: aa0655ed4cbdeebccd4fa6f9240a5234 SHA-1: 630144e7e7f611f989584debd7e77e314a564439 SHA-256: 99806ab93e474e7ce44d30b7a63db8cfb29beb736b5a17f0c82f8963b090185b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely used to obscure the ultimate destination of the malicious payload. The presence of many Shopify-hosted PDF links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated.

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=albuquerque+tv+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.cedarhillsoaps.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776015/dujewopuwiloj_xewizozaxudoja_xuvexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.laramiebikenet.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681954/monezewerikogikir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pipandwillys.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740177/271856abf620d.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/1/0430/7392/9378/files/gogakalavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4166/8772/files/taginamefanud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7229/8913/files/xewojemura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5233/5255/files/54225776182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7005/3784/files/61533929580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3248/6823/files/84381115573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9702/2879/files/wokaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3176/3864/files/kilevagox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1030/9787/files/xenemetaposemanifezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1358/6600/files/64968704925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2821/0073/files/kovusix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1090/8572/files/nuzutiditoxavoxem.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_off00009e1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E1C 4920 bytes
SHA-256: 0929987fcad3aa05267f76ede0d7a47d9b2a4372fd63482e3f68c73e1b96b58b
font_01_sfnt_off0000aee5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEE5 15684 bytes
SHA-256: 8aa5a9fdc9ad32edeb41d1d9db6f46d9a5d80f1e3a474478387e807835977233

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