Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a161e94553815a70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-07-29 03:12:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 13d896d30077bb5a3ee49910dbf902b9 SHA-1: 46624764360e8af68397ac5e8ce6619115bdc31f SHA-256: a161e94553815a7001b226870ac36801c3c2272eea26fd0d96d585ba5790b026
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a redirector hosted on 'ttraff.com' which is flagged as malicious. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which point to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of malicious redirector links and the link farm pattern indicate a likely attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites.

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/wb?keyword=o%20que%20%C3%A9%20autismo%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.pjeterkoleci.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681938/f414f68e3faf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.morrisflipsenglish.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407138/bokuratigowobugoxozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jonathanschofieldtours.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681634/e66a54036db972b.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/1/0433/8260/3927/files/morirubisonaletikuluvab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0723/6503/files/zibifozizalefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0697/5382/files/revumuwefawifunubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1814/9285/files/29503238182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0041/3856/files/91975749448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5791/3749/files/72938646351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4607/5542/files/tadepikeziwakuvokapinige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1478/2104/files/mabiziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4831/2730/files/zovisodotibusaset.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_off00006b09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B09 5132 bytes
SHA-256: 528b0c406e6f0a96a734386f4a07a649a45d831a9a708684712c3beca2b2e431
font_01_sfnt_off00007c46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C46 10144 bytes
SHA-256: 4cf913ab36f532c5e287162208de2b7812cdad811ba7f44a4193eccd18d1fb11

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