Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5f82adb3903a563…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.8 KB Created: 2020-08-04 09:03:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 680b0f733a86a920aa08e9d3bfd231c0 SHA-1: 525c29b1484769e0985d44046f922fb8a9fd4c6d SHA-256: b5f82adb3903a563e2a1ddb93290c288b7573d18c5641219374b0e582ca38654
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.cc. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign designed to lure users to malicious infrastructure. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=zhang+bounded+gaps+between+primes+pdf.

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.cc/pify?keyword=zhang+bounded+gaps+between+primes+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.houstonbottledwater.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968950/pawipimig-vegiv-sukok-selalix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fionacompton.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681824/tulotezeniramo_wobalefadan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.neubacher.vafercapital.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383284/580442.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/1/0438/8637/9160/files/91291398522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2143/4023/files/14356502710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2544/0669/files/wofomugukinuvurori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5288/3352/files/mumefilopizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/parisibudipaxetiwori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3291/0751/files/72735696488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7291/2549/files/29427567487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2103/1832/files/35195001757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5647/1959/files/25724738500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7966/3765/files/86829677148.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006413.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6413 5496 bytes
SHA-256: 2120e061286f6847194a77f5faf915109d730e5dfe7290553a6017bfce34888c
font_01_sfnt_off000076a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76A5 16040 bytes
SHA-256: 39b78b9d96fd4c55f8fa20550ab8d844b70443a90c390f3123ef92ae442876e9
font_02_sfnt_off0000aa97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA97 16236 bytes
SHA-256: 54c7454e0e37581c45996c00fec06e5e014cecb1b2e003ccf0ba466df70b3344
font_03_sfnt_off0000bff5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFF5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3