Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a97c651634664b1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.0 KB Created: 2020-08-14 19:41:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 365c8f7568e6c963ac8f3f60ac8efb50 SHA-1: dfce45ecc0b6f84da2b7aa399183b1e790abd04b SHA-256: a97c651634664b1ea1f9aef40ecdab8496bad339de4a0eb1c9cf461b1db0612f
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and a Shopify PDF URL, suggesting a lure to download further content or visit a malicious site. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=dj+bappi+bk+all+song In PDF document text
    • http://files.drakechurch.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740349/dekezafowo-nelaxulusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guxekane.thebigbarmitzvah.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776760/jomejixuwuzow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mopuvovef.heartlandlr.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815009/bunozutirasil-jidivug.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/1/0431/0158/5569/files/wizaxowevojubadazode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1760/9122/files/30480490133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3764/6245/files/laruxobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3126/3394/files/junonamivefaziwalewogov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6255/0940/files/xegefuvapupodakedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3975/8235/files/56767825376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8126/1466/files/lewawirirubirokekebak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2861/9168/files/tulomukedibewusuluvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0393/5902/files/49919285872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3881/8982/files/wezirupomolujowar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6044/5855/files/argonautika_script.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0504/8994/files/job_order_cost_accounting_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5109/8007/files/fesavuvide.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_off00004b7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B7F 5172 bytes
SHA-256: c0b15b68e1c6576db6043c0ca759e3814029994976f293f259999e881076683c
font_01_sfnt_off00005d2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D2E 10100 bytes
SHA-256: 23770d7f65e733bea885e967e06974bfdef2f2ca563dad82a44606d0e08a9a4b