Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9db953241c1e21c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-06 00:44:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 065a8767c7876e205929dd5766ad6526 SHA-1: 4b25ea66fc7101908f80e383bb47a9e737eff6c9 SHA-256: 9db953241c1e21c9b344f260906c8344b45d3337ef088ecbf55f16dad29567a7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a calculus textbook and the URL itself, suggesting a lure. The PDF also exhibits a link farm behavior, with numerous links pointing to Shopify domains, likely to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this 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.com/pify?keyword=calculus+early+transcendentals+10th+edition+anton+bivens+davis+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://favowin.thistlenthornfloral.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814989/viwidimup-viliwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bogardfarmsllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438240/3848cf256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.angeltouchbynursenclark.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695942/5197180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.historicredrooster.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814200/kebepeporur_pesisezugezila_banigiv_sogaxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.borobot.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710700/6859140.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/1/0433/0127/3758/files/55498441650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2355/7030/files/ximexepixogixuwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0316/6369/files/xunevagavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9143/5422/files/pifozidop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5802/1027/files/pelilorazeviropumupival.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6513/0658/files/51390444741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4517/4939/files/latutevikokibopimejad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5951/0425/files/singapore_mrt_map_2020_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8573/9670/files/47232515161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7937/6798/files/tedopatofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3640/2079/files/jotevim.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000063fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63FE 5644 bytes
SHA-256: 9e8f7c5e96348d95cbe357cda982e501a9a9705ae10cc2a8a9e6febce2ed21b1
font_01_sfnt_off0000772b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x772B 10076 bytes
SHA-256: f3b18cd78465bebf0291d318fbedc8e0d083654ddbb9494d1a66473b4c54d99d
font_02_sfnt_off00009975.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9975 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333