Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b18b8fde9adc1f07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-08 14:43:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 427a2dfc070fce4724a24eb568c50a98 SHA-1: 22afd0f03f91c9ae066a1394cadcc0d7234295be SHA-256: b18b8fde9adc1f078ecb9e76f39ce2a02b0c3c63797782758b94d3e4936b1768
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to 'Great Expectations' and includes the malicious URL. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious content. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=great+expectations+oxford+bookworms+pdf.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=great+expectations+oxford+bookworms+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.handyshop-traiskirchen.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607407/lopubuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hitthatjuice.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695416/9938c6a2dfffca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nationalconstructionsafetyexecutives.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379894/bakudajijina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ticklemysenses.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856907/pufamafufuz.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/1/0431/5676/6882/files/50780857268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wevanedinuwisuvajolow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/72593533024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3514/7933/files/20905595699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6190/3517/files/30513036001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6447/5304/files/11667706435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2647/3375/files/47488384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7302/8775/files/sepewasonodojozupuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9814/4932/files/vevoresilirusizuwuwunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9577/7699/files/35065675342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8702/8641/files/funozikow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5005/0460/files/pdf_to_word_converter_free_download_adobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5192/5155/files/toxifowefugabejafikifux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vibamiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7810/4728/files/webozavuxobozesupokuk.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_off000059a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59A9 5664 bytes
SHA-256: b97d80ef43d0c68fe9049d8157faaf54e2f6699c368b3047b2af447090de4a41
font_01_sfnt_off00006cf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CF1 13572 bytes
SHA-256: a24f08a345a2cba6ee02ceb7b7034b21ba1220aa17a331cbddce5e9f3e70f5f9