Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b00ce4c03840cb09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.0 KB Created: 2020-08-16 20:38:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bc9a3b882ccb27a1d770e472db36cbc9 SHA-1: 45a76bfdf757dea704f7802945c122254805477f SHA-256: b00ce4c03840cb0900c653c91a327126c62f658baee7f139e8c7da899970fff4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain, ttraff.com. This suggests a phishing or redirection attempt, likely to deliver a second-stage payload or lead the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'present simple verb to be test pdf' and the malicious URL, reinforcing the phishing lure.

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=present+simple+verb+to+be+test+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.micheleduncanking.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607635/88422797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.riveroflifetoday.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681210/9528795.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/1/0432/9222/9797/files/werenelopesafewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5327/7603/files/wugigom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9463/8749/files/38430011943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5131/0488/files/pinabipejaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5280/1943/files/zomezisek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6350/9143/files/98729104167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1339/7924/files/67346184148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9625/1304/files/zaxuweliduzijotomet.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_off000043f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x43F2 5176 bytes
SHA-256: e56c069f0bef3592308be32187bd68722181a77e9316015b044f7c173cb9eb23
font_01_sfnt_off0000556f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x556F 9968 bytes
SHA-256: 3472c19dc696b931c5fa29b9e4c083a0b80b153b48caf8c4d745a1996e03d28e

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