Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a99acfb6396a0420…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-08-20 21:18:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7ca00f04d051afc6d1561c19193252b9 SHA-1: a7906711036d0b51d8181c794294f55208e94896 SHA-256: a99acfb6396a042091f9724353dd1f789664b2fce4ae782a70b41b94cbc69b08
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text that appears to be a title and a URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.com, which is used to redirect users to further malicious content.

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=anthem+lights+class+of+2017+mashup In PDF document text
    • http://files.therabbitmansion.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163788/25d02e8145241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gajexokam.goingtruegreen.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857419/lilokeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watoxan.oldwisdomnewmoon.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740285/zerodavubata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oqls.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775520/wowipodukijikok_kawazavak_juvud_mapuvebalomur.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/1/0433/6756/3429/files/20671968180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1949/3785/files/10922827058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6785/9359/files/ruzaxuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5856/9128/files/30777144363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6547/5229/files/37099037980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3655/7987/files/76514314038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1243/1776/files/google_translate_english_to_indonesia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8353/8333/files/12388863977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5077/8275/files/convert_byte_array_to_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9952/1178/files/lewiston_idaho_steelhead_fishing_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5391/6060/files/turtle_the_incredible_journey_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9499/0243/files/love_is_on_the_way_guitar_tab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3894/6981/files/chain_armor_minecraft.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9177/8965/files/73116528348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1381/6995/files/tanerijelepudodesefogijul.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_off00004deb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4DEB 5728 bytes
SHA-256: a9c160262786626d3456cde9dbf78d87aac797739b3b4ba52a18960a6f695fb6
font_01_sfnt_off00006150.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6150 9300 bytes
SHA-256: 7688b140230bfb484dc1caf5c3e2311f5f110af9af26d6b6c5ab897131409eaf