Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aaba58bfecc1e02f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-07-23 19:06:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 76c8749fe0dc5e8652e41afea0a1aaf7 SHA-1: 1abcaab89eca8698fedc86d1774ebe36411a0753 SHA-256: aaba58bfecc1e02fddaebd0673817de3c7e0846b8b008d45324380182c0c9835
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a lure related to 'Songs off spotify free' and embeds numerous links. One critical heuristic indicates a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.com', and another identifies a PDF link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to the lure. The presence of multiple embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector, strongly suggests a phishing or redirection attack.

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=songs+off+spotify+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.linie-e.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857115/ba379ff5f593a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sgotfredsonart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408572/739391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.davisfamilyatdeanpark.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710797/lajitovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.unitedmethodistastoria.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383384/348322.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/1/0430/7157/0069/files/326016338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4842/6910/files/76311418214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5314/6517/files/47375095088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6659/7288/files/9947217918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2249/1553/files/10859273732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9733/3668/files/60621284027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2358/0830/files/63738475443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/jisabisagubimebusogapasof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4031/6311/files/93972176971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7006/2754/files/fadopixavozoratevozew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7400/0798/files/datapisinuwefatukokut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vuvitew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7382/2102/files/fezabetisukoxiko.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_off000078c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78C3 4820 bytes
SHA-256: 89b42395925938aa0f0f40f0325b76b803f94583a58045b1582dd4288ac046b6
font_01_sfnt_off00008937.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8937 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 55d368abad60a49a75723f783820ae3f5493b9008637e10af11a54d60f39101f