Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ffda097088d79a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.3 KB Created: 2020-07-31 19:21:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 853214ddbea4579ce8062e8b14e5fd8a SHA-1: 76eaad82693530d97e66597710bf059eafdbd132 SHA-256: 9ffda097088d79a2f3ac77c620d17782ae0f0619b128a9c3e61c26bd1a776be8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. This suggests the document is designed to lead users to malicious content through a chain of redirects. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the exact payload.

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=sd+media+launcher+gamecube In PDF document text
    • http://files.norcalsmartvestorpro.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710655/96f0fa3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aps7.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382531/5237240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.proorganizerlindsay.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874328/4020664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.britanniahomeservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382841/9556325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wardwatkinsinsurance.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453588/5374814.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/1/0430/6924/3549/files/48345225554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7331/4715/files/34617009886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9563/7659/files/93912651225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7274/8710/files/82866426308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6372/1637/files/furemovemazukur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7473/1685/files/89660969806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9217/3217/files/vebixamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0298/5626/files/71376781530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rabilividobakomitunaxizug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2733/2252/files/muvobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3782/6973/files/46473125893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7690/2309/files/furetanilisoxojenufami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6612/9574/files/14446858744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5939/6254/files/71045366000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5100/8671/files/ledanuz.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_off0000764b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x764B 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 49c8d27416aae51cddd150f843081f35dc7ed20ba92eba7ba2ec014c73d8fd16
font_01_sfnt_off00008886.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8886 10280 bytes
SHA-256: c76dae3da788a7a91a2b92a48f880c195de81c054bd30c00e91366945590f671