Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b74325c933e86658…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-04 23:29:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 9047fefe69d56659d4c111bddb05a947 SHA-1: 362166e28293fd4e7101d375602d399046982748 SHA-256: b74325c933e8665836008b954366bbe6eb32af7c9dd7c8d0582044fceeb3fde5
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 of which point to external PDFs hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic firing indicates a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.com', which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this redirector URL, suggesting the primary intent is to trick the user into clicking the link. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=numbers+1+to+100+in+english+words+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.chungenliu.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738499/deraxagirit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dad-shoes.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814393/lomenojizul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.faithacademyashland.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712282/18482.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/1/0428/0533/0083/files/95375067281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4352/0666/files/97628276179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9733/3668/files/vixikakezunagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5203/9328/files/36960186064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9751/2354/files/46342717688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6532/7262/files/61646337058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2883/9586/files/likopefaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0349/4043/files/lozosoraninafobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0269/9681/files/dolamurarivewuxawujuvepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9821/9420/files/xezilerojeruwixebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2219/5608/files/nevogujaba.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_off00005a26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A26 5640 bytes
SHA-256: 4300e6981eab46b523ad76f54046212a8b95ee4f5cbdc3fd0bf1099a276d381a
font_01_sfnt_off00006d42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D42 12904 bytes
SHA-256: cb868b347bf7c0bcd0a91c34a6894959e55a9b30e39743a801c55e34dca81ccf