Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5ba0cf73b2b2577…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-04 20:15:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5817b31e9acd969f4fc152d355cab293 SHA-1: ed1dcd18e6360386fd86f13d8bf23440812f0d72 SHA-256: b5ba0cf73b2b25773096db0d58d0675146302161527c6ae17348a5584a823bcd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it's a malicious redirector link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=git+branching+model+pdf, which is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other benign-looking Shopify URLs, suggesting a social engineering lure to drive traffic to the malicious redirector.

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=git+branching+model+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.irishcraftcocktailawards.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070051/8050711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.freesixsigmasite.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776265/5f68eee15db6de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alliedennydesigns.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303314/0ad87ae40f798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alexandersheltonyoga.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379530/sabifu_zitasaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sukofeguz.beavercreekministries.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407901/nudage_fifagobaxufis.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/1261535930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4015/3511/files/19396643506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0485/4426/files/zofabavuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8254/7361/files/29479270362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9110/7752/files/pofabukopisikuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8962/4224/files/pesomelesibipano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6265/6152/files/analysis_for_financial_management_10th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1825/5510/files/singer_tradition_2277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8710/9023/files/29198119041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5025/5014/files/gurobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4141/4555/files/latofawomiwoneme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5085/2762/files/56648938869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3006/0955/files/purovapinavilux.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_off00006009.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6009 5348 bytes
SHA-256: ba3f1bd845e61f8c4a4b56121ec4f316a0455b359cd81ef018489e831927e6a6
font_01_sfnt_off00007201.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7201 9576 bytes
SHA-256: 4026150c792bf6b006faa761d68f35da8df48da97971890af326863738348cbf
font_02_sfnt_off000092ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92CE 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e