Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6e9ec9f525113e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.1 KB Created: 2020-08-03 17:47:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8426dd16a4a35c8624b32fc7ef935006 SHA-1: 9810ee2e0fba2587cbf5520067fbd2d81db0917b SHA-256: a6e9ec9f525113e62504740384a776277398e86533622507bacd36fca01ec290
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'. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning technique used to disguise malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious URL is a strong indicator of a phishing or malware distribution 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=benson+schaeffer+signos+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.dkg-nc-mu.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856636/kegabodimapof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wineverytime19.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636676/xixigufanivijuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.erinboake.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776718/maxul_zefanenumu_ruxuxotevar_jazomagudigem.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/1/0431/5670/1348/files/bawadotigudeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4940/2024/files/72842779519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9477/7757/files/macintosh_character_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4015/3505/files/1116993900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3196/2535/files/82414370235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1572/4456/files/rosagezexofufoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4745/0789/files/16564899476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1610/1793/files/86700215329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5670/9273/files/46641604940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9373/8143/files/lolezabepobepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4585/5137/files/49535469986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8174/1976/files/vasaxogateniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9652/3423/files/airport_utility_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0433/8074/files/most_valuable_playboy_magazines.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_off000079cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79CB 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 280549289ffd893a8659d9749ba01206191a1f648febb3282e9db7613b3a325d
font_01_sfnt_off00008c46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C46 11720 bytes
SHA-256: b0faec99ca00140338a2d1a05b0c98bd6d67aa5a4c898aebdc8284df4fa05da9

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