Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba123053c10f1f93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.8 KB Created: 2020-07-31 06:56:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 76be1c35e3533da068a00783d5ff7e21 SHA-1: 381bd4a8078ba8eb9d6fffefc911597dec45588b SHA-256: ba123053c10f1f938d7cfbff4551c18e5304c4aff8d45b11426e6d0856504332
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Another heuristic flags it as a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM', indicating a mass of external links, with 'cdn.shopify.com' being a dominant host. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of these link farms suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

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=english+paragraph+writing+examples+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.theworkwithsarahmaya.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071114/3f52f2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.carterrod.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163836/a76fafc2fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.3fishproductions.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969775/fiveduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dayesoutdoors.ca/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606016/ff126ca5411be8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theincomesnowball.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407668/476269.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/1/0434/5459/5225/files/39290696554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1116/8663/files/nowugeworikobokilawodoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/79265304831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5039/2984/files/81271391348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wupukibasabozuxijixosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9969/2958/files/mujasizetuzuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8184/2332/files/83492306079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8812/5857/files/57861561743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2641/4749/files/todidadirukazunubinex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8283/2289/files/vuxemazibuzax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1044/8795/files/41553428215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3960/3360/files/94071615056.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_off00007cbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CBF 5248 bytes
SHA-256: 511cbf5e19e426fc5b038ec352a4b206a143c725ffd5786229caa0bc0fc5c051
font_01_sfnt_off00008e73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E73 1600 bytes
SHA-256: ec9af9ef8c9eac5fe5ed73b9997d79b963cc310dd67da44551dc0af385ac02e4
font_02_sfnt_off0000968c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x968C 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 1319067342a0c2c2792cac16dc7f4ffc6afbbe67bd52c1e173f29286fbc2b00f