Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af3bb690b3b93af9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.1 KB Created: 2020-08-06 04:49:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 00753f590f7e59111fd3afaa360c5ff2 SHA-1: 6b185006596930fb204ec7041efe749b900d605a SHA-256: af3bb690b3b93af943270dc7572283576438d89da4aaca3ee96d9891bff9da6b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, 'ttraff.cc', which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body contains obfuscated text and the target URL, indicating an attempt to trick users into clicking through to 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.cc/pify?keyword=bronchiectasis+nejm+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.croissantandcovenice.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454270/weroxe_xelivaderodoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mississauganation.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775853/2645743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.northsouthhockey.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131484328/375a9267ee3d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kingstonwestdental.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738596/aa41de0f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stonevalleyarts.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303229/bedopuveguj_kevekij_sofezu_xoneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1063/7476/files/vusowutolususezesezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1416/8480/files/7790453172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4449/4750/files/kuxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5211/2803/files/76803249246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2435/8298/files/75761797577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3320/6682/files/gezuloxupiwededo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1540/4702/files/aristotle_athenaion_politeia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4790/1592/files/what_is_testng_in_selenium.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7467/4083/files/80919713909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7177/4615/files/68629493648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3339/5353/files/zawulitekilalekukubem.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000072fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72FA 5276 bytes
SHA-256: 3b063fe893e19bcf4d0722bf3c41e9e45b5543584b24b585081f210546d8acd0
font_01_sfnt_off000084ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84AD 14256 bytes
SHA-256: 012a59b2519cfa7fb2df37aecd6230a90dc05d24a13bcc0ec3c68a847fedcaa8
font_02_sfnt_off0000b180.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB180 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2