Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a08a35a8d3b14e6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.3 KB Created: 2020-08-15 05:22:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 040598bb76273611b94dad9bcb389a69 SHA-1: 7d08c7e35e97d4f96fa19691fc1c7266da9cca03 SHA-256: a08a35a8d3b14e6cb428df776a589faad99730d4ef8fbf5bee3644728cff3697
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of a malicious redirector link and the sheer volume of links indicate a link farm or phishing attempt.

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=web+browser+webview+android+studio In PDF document text
    • http://files.valiulis.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380000/pexewuvevebun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodoxage.ortingvalleyfarmersmarket.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452972/pezinobisegadikebobi.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/1/0430/4030/9402/files/jaxogokakinedib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0036/3169/files/33089186164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8706/0375/files/81619719093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/woburorofinuxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0912/0152/files/91692502413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1266/1152/files/6923621242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5213/0716/files/ralaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0876/1751/files/norozevadaniwixomurumafit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5247/4267/files/64294050689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6934/0822/files/3523577556.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_off0000b67f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB67F 5092 bytes
SHA-256: 1c72ae2208bfce6b1403413ebdf37d456b097f7e391829b44824c16d43c5e20b
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7F7 13968 bytes
SHA-256: 27f5c9b69047e160a4322aaad3e9eb71541bcfa19e04a8fefd2d3ff3a7d19c7e

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