Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac7568b1d9db4819…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-09 15:45:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fded80b0949e39ecc0e6ee4fd8674c25 SHA-1: 3975772f7279033fa14380c8b3d056cc82c98c6b SHA-256: ac7568b1d9db4819f4c46f2d719b43859b726b261627d476e0f8e6cda72b916c
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects through ttraff.cc, a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Arizona articles of organization pdf' and includes the malicious redirector URL. This suggests a phishing or content-scraping lure, aiming to direct users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a callback phishing lure heuristic further supports a social engineering attack vector.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=arizona+articles+of+organization+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wezufale.voicesacrossborders.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438216/sosuremipagakat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vufipezeg.livelifewelltherapy.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813765/330124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rosypetrova.online/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856649/lafexipuxivesexewoxi.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/1/0431/8085/1364/files/42608674136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6182/0054/files/gejufufixabuweru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8457/7958/files/botany_objective_question_bank.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0849/1673/files/tavugagivunorid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0510/0707/files/moxudevof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7038/2490/files/bipolar_assessment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5317/0339/files/zexowenor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5412/1635/files/buveraresobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9963/4328/files/fixasaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1481/5901/files/puzifofufufuroteleta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7438/8119/files/digavufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8119/5927/files/lawafokeriwigarososop.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_off00007110.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7110 5364 bytes
SHA-256: d82a6f0645cfccaaaed628a5f873815a38ceb5a3cfa5b5c129279c2b3a15f0b3
font_01_sfnt_off00008364.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8364 12076 bytes
SHA-256: a7dccc9f021c3d6f99ac9711c9369f7030d2f22a50083886351d671a39f0a57f

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