Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b957052633ec8e04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-26 03:38:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f780254eb7af17692a25a83745abf14b SHA-1: 6d1f3dc3347be35e5707556db285d0a941685b14 SHA-256: b957052633ec8e040713f0c6e211614487a3679de90fee1a1f6d02798e1a2c24
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector (ttraff.com). The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting an attempt to obscure the malicious destination or distribute content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be the malicious link farm.

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=pruebas+no+parametricas In PDF document text
    • http://digexof.birminghammodelyachtclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873825/nasuwisata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.paradise-wings-jamaica.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775462/metidojizoxupa_kujezanujun_wosolidubozu_kewev.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/1/0428/0667/3575/files/84069272523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2103/1832/files/muxilejegoritigopig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4588/6884/files/fisajadopadujorujaseju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2249/5389/files/charlie_malayalam_movie_hd_tamilrockers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9309/8660/files/katogivavugajipifolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8439/6184/files/chinese_visual_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4686/3005/files/talking_angela_2019_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/jisabisagubimebusogapasof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5963/4591/files/70640738771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7319/8497/files/chutes_and_ladders_board_game_template.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_off00005e27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E27 5188 bytes
SHA-256: dbcb8a82efdb6139ab805211721da8d1290e65e8b05357a82cf3f6db1b446202
font_01_sfnt_off00006faa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FAA 11216 bytes
SHA-256: e2fbfa3e7a6f78117dc55f4b8a5b6a7b96bbbcd8114d71cf70886bbef41a755d