Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b014fc9b6f1ea71d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.4 KB Created: 2020-08-12 08:14:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 731b250a45cdd20d703e1f9c4dead410 SHA-1: e6a6c7d4cfe0aec3a0e4c8d1295b7dbe98f31b3d SHA-256: b014fc9b6f1ea71dfc7c89627a0886380cf1b9dbe11d309143c7f8d1202aa74f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=zoo+animals+clipart+pdf'. This indicates an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same URL and other URLs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or content-luring strategy. The presence of numerous external PDF links further supports the SEO link farm heuristic.

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=zoo+animals+clipart+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.westmilfordfarm.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873869/7980379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bemsociety.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776327/ruzozudalenoxipife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.littletheorem.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453255/tudaxagulutab-wijanawelived-tewiwituzunose-xobevuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.moparsunlimited.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453432/wigukido.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/1/0438/5813/3152/files/38932225391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3015/0296/files/85477900219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8766/7103/files/vixelotalanexiguwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8085/1362/files/113_bus_schedule_nj_transit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1896/0545/files/carpe_diem_poema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2273/5767/files/etica_y_coaching_ontologico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5756/9189/files/begolexex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9972/3678/files/36268699360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4603/4853/files/16589761712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4375/0039/files/sbi_corporate_net_banking_application_form.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_off00004af2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4AF2 5256 bytes
SHA-256: 18dfb17a0d7b4db66e3770df37a6469fe604e432631b66a9f27c5814ecf3bcf2
font_01_sfnt_off00005cb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CB6 9476 bytes
SHA-256: 9358e1950ffd148fc71dac3b0b717a6869cc181849006e4ca5eb54ca82116a9e

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