Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f32e1a7646a8fd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-17 01:51:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 46383107283a44e56f5c5cc16f2b3d39 SHA-1: 31b6fe78317d7109c24544eaf65f76993734d475 SHA-256: 9f32e1a7646a8fd4d9f79b45141aa5efe1849ecc214ca0e59170182ddfbf30e8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a download link for a multipurpose keynote template. The file also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation to increase visibility. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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=motagua+multipurpose+keynote+template+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.mark-elliott.ca/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856100/lazipiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lucysartistcottage.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437604/kilis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lofozugo.fincapuntiro.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775291/zafilarufelavek-mazuzowerinum.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/1/0436/2534/9273/files/bambara_groundnut_journal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9639/2348/files/prentice_hall_mathematics_geometry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4169/9478/files/figuresimakedos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0437/7763/files/85190924971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3040/4506/files/cannery_row_full.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kevesuladufutaniwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8720/0418/files/53200735661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5657/0266/files/90052473983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6219/8425/files/monitoring_and_evaluation_tools_and_frameworks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0940/1251/files/91348980841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5066/2053/files/best_ios_book_reader.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3517/8661/files/toletidofebevisowezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8298/0259/files/waxoliwoduzosa.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_off000071f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71F4 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 14bc3794d0e88d592998c3736dd7a486772e85267f6e49cc4c25f023a4658a01
font_01_sfnt_off0000844e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x844E 10024 bytes
SHA-256: c2b0c95120950571535a121eafd9d6d358e1a19fc9dc9b170b5f3524797be0a3

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