Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b23370cd381d5798…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-05 00:48:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d9e46b7112ea07c94379f3238ead7715 SHA-1: 00c5036fdc2f09f78598aee7083f79824b14a0fc SHA-256: b23370cd381d5798de2f64d577f0817b7a8291bea2ba45ebccef02ea3278617b
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and several other PDF links, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a malicious intent.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=causality+assessment+of+adr+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://samopodo.victorialandis.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740978/liduvosakopuzam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.scw9.ca/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969176/1576028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ncappartnership.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384127/tewega-riwibadazetu-nabululukot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.somax-consulting.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453405/pavekenamuwu.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/1/0435/2396/5079/files/66239614831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2584/1819/files/57690959436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0721/2709/files/lesufinagimukiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2639/0933/files/wagujidojupesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1567/3752/files/nijazipajixubib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7055/3238/files/61014727922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7840/2723/files/dolenosiriwofitora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zonamanasalusowalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1410/2941/files/28166226777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4162/0119/files/alphabetical_order_worksheets_for_grade_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3818/7413/files/mysql_delete_row.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8962/5250/files/56426956797.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_off0000748c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x748C 5196 bytes
SHA-256: 90c665540c72d57d130b456ccedceedf7347d9431f1152da871e9ffc0c4be658
font_01_sfnt_off00008625.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8625 10296 bytes
SHA-256: f4b7d01845bde44b2747d6cdceb057d651cfc9be76fb860f185bf35ee60069ee