Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6bdd9737d465bcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-07-25 22:02:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7f493f651a820bc24ff2d432d3b47d27 SHA-1: eaddd02cddbee559a0579380ea71d64251b5bbfa SHA-256: b6bdd9737d465bcd1f672537c74fb72de87f8d8e70ad346d80e9a84ff46057e3
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with 18 external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify domains, and one critical heuristic firing indicates a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Cinema apk ad free', suggesting a lure for potentially unwanted or malicious software. The presence of a visual download button heuristic further supports the social engineering aspect of this attack.

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=cinema+apk+ad+free+1.+4.+3 In PDF document text
    • http://files.nightskybooks.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815785/9479880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.genewhitacrecpa.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858287/tejotufaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sjosephpsychotherapy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740591/663039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hooversfarmsupply.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969334/2026091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.twindphoto.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070192/zowafo_kofuvebepe_zuzorewikoso_kevezoganari.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/1/0431/7062/7735/files/27606448950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4904/1563/files/35885967041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1121/1425/files/reguvibatofodusiboli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9078/9027/files/86925450273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2756/9576/files/35979902855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zaduvezumutup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8741/2900/files/45524990210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7026/7300/files/kegirexoxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/benubojebexoreloruva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0890/0768/files/juvaguwegilobiwuxojos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8614/2876/files/94252552677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3846/6467/files/32519914974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4384/0412/files/lavufitorip.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_off000070a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70A0 4996 bytes
SHA-256: 7e4eb6b6239a03b27706a50320c81e382b548c952361e31b1d9c67d50d688f1a
font_01_sfnt_off0000818d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x818D 10068 bytes
SHA-256: 804fe2dd9e1dbddd95601e3442d02602636538a21772a65305ac1ac34863c566