Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b49bd48e2195590e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.9 KB Created: 2020-08-11 14:46:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cf095fbc5727e53f985b0746b305ba1b SHA-1: 28625cb25491b40415bf57a69301cbf3dfef6b6e SHA-256: b49bd48e2195590ef3a2521eb92391d15dd97680d480070ce5628acfa7f4c781
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of a link farm designed to improve SEO for malicious redirectors. The primary redirector URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=simplified+occupational+hygiene+risk+management+strategies+pdf, is flagged as malicious. This suggests the document's purpose is to trick users into clicking through to potentially harmful content, likely a phishing or malware distribution site.

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=simplified+occupational+hygiene+risk+management+strategies+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.miamibluebullies.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409761/rurevabuxom-bipuwunoso-wexovax-difulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jimabeler.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453171/tejujivavaret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.10thgvi.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438003/3dd3958c.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/1/0433/7133/1742/files/75868269602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4127/5547/files/45852023405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3750/8252/files/focus._ariana_grande_mp3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/41936141003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7948/9946/files/java_radix_sort.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0661/3912/files/nosoruke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3547/4590/files/89284040098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7484/5858/files/arapa_e_anlaml_kelimeler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4826/4089/files/69041388389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vawis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4273/3208/files/peganekagavepipaxokuxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8992/0154/files/adoration_prayer_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6876/7907/files/82294481807.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_off00007cbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CBE 5720 bytes
SHA-256: a9a6407316293f8be439f602495e05ce72a13dd4d2b9ef9ddac06a5edfa70db5
font_01_sfnt_off00008ffe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FFE 10660 bytes
SHA-256: a236a63d981814ffde4d17aa1b356a4d7ff8be943f408137012313eda50fc537
font_02_sfnt_off0000b379.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB379 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c