Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9f8b6d696a4be6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2020-08-10 04:45:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4fd9fc544e28970b73a7996346e0dc9e SHA-1: 3cc25d25591731577833c1dffcab041249b184bb SHA-256: a9f8b6d696a4be6fe0e7b25bed66a77065c6da5fd47e48c1226cc09d9f99c319
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a lure related to a self-help workbook, which is a common tactic for advance-fee scams. It embeds numerous links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The file also contains a large number of links to Shopify domains, likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for 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=awaken+the+giant+within+workbook+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.chardoncommunityactionteam.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384018/pugotut-newifuniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.queerapocalypsesolutions.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969315/f2c28b529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.betechindia.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379699/jawalax_rosezumuj_relew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.silverdappledesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969598/11110afc7c.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/1/0434/6370/4738/files/bowaxazisabinogaponu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4255/9384/files/android_developer_fundamentals_course.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7192/1571/files/sbi_card_statement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/29529942485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4816/3735/files/dabekusexasotulumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2252/3288/files/47027892019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5508/6742/files/faselojuvugufupano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3427/9062/files/gopibavipukitofexeraze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2940/5600/files/pujunefifaweluromilesadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8921/5129/files/redubuwosewazuputij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8982/1845/files/practical_multivariate_analysis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7337/1300/files/14068846906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1551/0938/files/freedom_and_the_spirit_berdyaev.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_off0000cd4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD4C 5380 bytes
SHA-256: e93c675c02074a400f6a9ef9a87cfa13893e120f601b4e9140d055ac2cdb5605
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFA8 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 8df0269a1b4ee65bc8b66c31c836aee0e0564d9091887d8607c69e22f920e4dc

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