Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9fefb7a230c4066…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-15 02:39:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8b203f26f25ddc845e56c027691266fa SHA-1: fea75abb5fd21b6bd1cbe1b5288189dd33eeb71b SHA-256: a9fefb7a230c4066405d1345d16d5c44b7d83e8090223828ea813db97af90cc0
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 of which point to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.com). This indicates a link farm or SEO poisoning technique designed to lure users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting the primary intent is to drive traffic to this redirector. No scripts were extracted, and the PDF structure itself is the primary vector.

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=abstraction+in+java+with+example+programs+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dagolebi.dmedicinewoman.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398591/9587046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stephaniebershyoga.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379371/1049198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.worldtravelingfeet.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164488/9b411518b8c9.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/1/0434/5053/1990/files/afcon_2020_qualifiers_fixtures_and_results.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9622/0572/files/achillea_millefolium_medicinal_uses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6764/5857/files/difulolabisijexazalogere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/texirid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5817/5901/files/girifusisob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9245/1232/files/widedetafike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4021/1097/files/daxobelagitasosivapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0682/8441/files/30714749017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5136/8104/files/35942730734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4378/1792/files/72267185035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8116/1121/files/list_of_prepositional_phrases_and_their_meaning.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_off000060ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60BA 5996 bytes
SHA-256: adfdc1a24dc2b00c6a92be519c7d059a49673687ef5094dc2ac7d6fe8e8c70ed
font_01_sfnt_off00007504.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7504 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 1e9116ddd028946f9219dedb40e9a552d2db55f34277f9cc14155dc22a4dcb4e

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